At most, one-third of indigenous children attended residential schools, often laxly, for an average of 4.5 years. This suggests not enough students attended long enough to have been as negatively affected as is claimed;

It was orphans, neglected, or abused children who were forced to attend residential schools; as for the rest, federal policies were rarely enforced;

No "missing children" went away to residential schools and were never heard from again. Instead, their attendance was carefully recorded from registration to completion;

No missing children are buried in unmarked graves underneath or around mission churches and schools;

The suggestion that missing children were murdered by school personnel after being subjected to physical and sexual abuse or even outright torture is a scandalous and totally undocumented blood libel;

No human remains have been located using ground-penetrating radar except for persons properly registered and buried in known school, church, or community cemeteries;

Attendance at residential schools did not by itself traumatize indigenous people, creating social ills that descended across generations;

Conversely, many children entered residential school already traumatized by orphanhood, neglect, or abuse on their home reserves;

Residential schools generally either helped preserve or had little effect on pre-existing indigenous languages and culture; and

Residential school attendance had no resemblance whatsoever to genocide.