Kevin Annett

Annett characterizes skepticism about residential school deaths as a government-sponsored form of denialism.

“this is a whole movement that began sponsored by the Canadian government online to try to create our own domestic Holocaust denial”

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Annett says every excavation his group conducted with elders' approval yielded human bones.

“Every time we dug up bones with the elders' approval, proved to be human”

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Annett estimates 60,000 to 80,000 children died in the schools between 1891 and 1996.

“probably 60,000 to 80,000 children. Because we just calculated from the number of schools and the average death rate”

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Annett cites Dr. Peter Bryce's government-commissioned 1909 inspection as evidence of mass deaths in the schools.

“He was commissioned by the Canadian government in 1909 to go and do a health inspection of all these Indian schools”

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Annett recounts that KPFA host Dennis Bernstein cut off their interview after he mentioned China buying up the West Coast.

“I mentioned China buying up the West Coast. He turns off the mic and takes a break and says, sorry, Kevin, we got to stop the interview”

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Annett alleges disappearances along the Highway of Tears result from China and the RCMP clearing Native people from gas-rich land.

“the Chinese, with help from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, are clearing out Native people from the whole area”

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Annett claims the Trudeau government allowed China to station troops in Canada to protect its oil and gas interests.

“the Trudeau government gave China the right to station troops on Canadian soil to protect all its oil and gas in the West and up North”

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Annett argues that congregants who fund a criminal church are legally complicit even if unaware.

“Under the law, ignorance of a crime is no defense. That's kind of basic. They taught me that in first-year law”

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Annett asserts that religious believers are statistically more likely than atheists to commit crimes because religion lets them defer moral responsibility.

“you're more likely to kill somebody or commit a crime if you believe in God than if you're an atheist, statistically”

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Annett states he was the only minister in United Church history to be publicly defrocked.

“I was the only minister in United Church history ever to be publicly defrocked”

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Annett says the church paid his ex-wife's lawyer more than $60,000 so he would lose custody of his children.

“They paid her lawyer over $60,000 to make sure that I lost custody of the kids and went through hell, basically”

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Annett links his 2009 exorcism in St. Peter's Square to a tornado that struck Rome the following morning.

“The next morning, a tornado hits Rome for the first time in 48 years”

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Annett claims Michael Persinger received CIA funding to develop the God Helmet.

“And he was getting CIA money to create that”

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Annett predicts a severe economic crash in North America, worsened by North Americans' lack of experience with hardship.

“I think there is a big crash coming in North America”

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Annett alleges, citing church sources, that Cardinal Timothy Dolan channeled over $300 million in Catholic charitable funds into Neuralink.

“Tim Dolan channeled over $300 million from the Catholic Relief Agency, this is charitable agencies, into Neuralink”

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Annett claims Pope Benedict XVI resigned six days before his common-law tribunal delivered its verdict.

“six days before our verdict came in he resigns the first pope to resign in 600 years”

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Annett argues the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's figure of about 3,000 deaths contradicts official mortality data.

“And they said only 3,000 died, which contradicts their own figures of half of them dying every year”

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