The cost to this nation of 'living within the lie' is incalculable. Yet, not one shovel has hit the ground in Kamloops, B.C.

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In his widely-praised Davos speech, Mark Carney paid homage to a renowned 1978 essay by Czech dissident Václav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless.” In it, Havel tells the parable of a greengrocer who refuses to place a “Workers of the World unite!” poster in his window, symbolizing his personal dissent from a totalitarian regime’s extortion of rote public mantras nobody believes as a tool for mind control.

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In taking this quietly gutsy stand, the greengrocer moves from “living within a lie,” like his conforming peers, to “living within the truth,” setting such an impressive example that Mr. Carney appropriated moral kinship with the greengrocer in his declared defiance of certain scofflaw “hegemons.”

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But one needn’t go abroad or back in time to find brave metaphorical greengrocers.

Since May 2021, a small, courageous band of honorable Canadian historians, independent researchers, teachers, politicians, lawyers and journalists have refused to put their “sign in the window” affirming — without evidence other than the vague suggestion of soil anomalies which have not been confirmed through exhumation, though $12.1 million was allotted for the endeavour — that 215 Indigenous children died in illicit........

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