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Ottawa spent $33.1 billion on reconciliation last year. Somebody has to ask where it went.

For five years, Rebel News reporter Drea Humphrey has asked one question about the claim that 215 children were found in unmarked graves at Kamloops: where is the evidence? Five years and millions of taxpayer dollars later, there still hasn’t been an excavation — and for asking, Drea has been called a denier and threatened along with her children.

But the orange shirt controversy made one thing clear: those questions need to go much further than one apple orchard.

Indigenous Canadians today are around six times more likely to be murdered than other Canadians. Indigenous kids make up more than half of the children in foster care. Poverty, prison, addiction and abuse rates remain staggering. Meanwhile, federal spending on reconciliation has nearly tripled in a decade. If the money were working, the numbers would say so.

So Drea is going to follow it. Onto reserves, into band council books, through access-to-information requests and court records, and into the communities where people are asking the same questions she is but have no one to ask them on their behalf. She’ll expose overreach where she finds it, and she’ll give credit to the leaders who are getting it right.

The CBC won’t do this. They take $1.4 billion a year from the same government they’d have to investigate. Rebel News takes nothing from government, which means this investigation only happens if you fund it.

Your donation pays for Drea’s travel to remote communities, freedom-of-information filings, legal review so we can publish what she finds, video production, and the security she now needs every time she reports in the field.

Please chip in $25, $50 or $100 today. Let’s find out what reconciliation is actually buying.

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