Misinformation, millions in wasted funds, and church burnings all fuelled by a modern Blood Libel
Imagine a documentary that falsely accuses a religious group of committing horrific crimes—murdering children, covering up the evidence, and engaging in a generations-long conspiracy. Now, imagine that documentary being praised by politicians, the media, and nominated for an Academy Award. Imagine it being shown in schools as fact.
Unthinkable? It’s happening in Canada today.
A film called Sugarcane, which pushes an unproven and inflammatory accusation against Catholic priests, is being hailed as a triumph despite providing no real evidence. It mirrors the infamous Blood Libel—the false claim that Jews killed Christian children for religious rituals—a lie that incited centuries of violence, pogroms, and even contributed to the Holocaust.
Just as the Blood Libel was used to justify hatred and persecution against Jews, Sugarcane and similar narratives are fuelling anti-Catholic sentiment, government waste, and even church burnings.
Sugarcane, nominated for an Academy Award, falsely claims that Catholic priests at a British Columbia residential school impregnated female students and burned their babies in an incinerator. This claim has no supporting evidence. The documentary manipulates viewers by telling the tragic but unrelated true story of Antoinette Archie, an Indigenous woman who abandoned her newborn in a residential school incinerator. The baby survived, was raised as Ed...
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