CBC corrects false claim accusing Rebel News of 'misinformation' while itself promoting the fabricated story of indigenous children's remains in unmarked residential school graves.
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) -- The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has issued a correction after blaming Rebel News of "misinformation" while spreading false information itself.
On April 17, CBC corrected a comment from chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton who accused Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey of spreading "misinformation," while repeating the false claim that bodies have been found in unmarked graves at Indigenous residential schools.
"Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places across the country," Barton falsely stated during a live broadcast following the French-language federal election leaders' debate.
Her comment was in reference to New Democratic Leader (NDP) Jagmeet Singh refusing to answer a reporter's question whether he would condemn the rash of church burnings and acts of vandalism across Canada.
"In this case you saw Mr. Singh, and this has been his position for some time, to refuse to answer questions," Barton said during the live stream.
"Rebel News in particular traffics in misinformation, lack of facts, and as you heard in that question, which was woven with some truth and some things that weren't true," she claimed.
"Yes, there have been burnings of Christian, Catholic churches," she admitted.
"Yes, there have been remains of Indigenous children found in various places around the country, which she misrepresented," Barton falsely stated.
Despite mass excavations, there have still been no mass graves discovered at any residential schools across Canada, but politicians and media continue to promote the false narrative.
CBC was quickly called out for their false statement, which ironically came at the same time as accusing another media outlet of spreading "misinformation."
However, even in their correction statement, CBC failed to mention that, to date, no human remains have been discovered.
"As CBC News has reported on multiple occasions, what several Indigenous communities across Canada have discovered on the sites of some former residential schools are potential burial sites or unmarked graves," the statement read.
However, CBC is now well known for pushing the false narrative that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the schools. As a consequence of that false narrative, since 2021, over 100 churches have been burned or vandalized across Canada in seeming retribution.
Indeed, in addition to perpetuating the “mass graves” narrative, media and politicians have even threatened to punish those who oppose it. In November, CBC subtly suggested that “residential school denialism” should be criminalized.
