Pickering Councillor Lisa Robinson has come out publicly to accuse Mayor Kevin Ashe of ‘lying’ and trying to ‘silence her’.
Mayor Ashe issued a statement on April 20 (see below) which accused ‘a councillor’ of ‘harmful comments on residential schools and reconciliation’ and said the said councillor will be referred to the city’s integrity commissioner.
The recent charge and countercharge arose out of an April 8 social media post by Robinson titled: 215 ‘Mass Graves’ at Kamloops: Zero Bodies Found After 5 Years – The Lie Exposed.
Yesterday, she issued Part 2 of the post with a subtitle of: The Mayor Lied About What I Said — Now He Wants Me Silenced.
Claims Are Simply Not True: Lisa
“Mayor Ashe has publicly accused me of making ‘harmful comments’ and is referring me to the integrity commissioner—based on claims that simply are not true,” said the councillor.
“Mayor Ashe’s statement deliberately misrepresents both the content and the intent of my comments,” said Robinson. “I have never denied the documented history or the very real harms of Canada’s residential school system, nor have I dismissed the painful experiences of survivors. What I did say — clearly and specifically — is that the 2021 Kamloops announcement of “215 children found in mass graves” was not supported by the evidence at the time, and five years later it still isn’t.”
Radar Anomalies
She referred to the Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation’s own February 17, 2026 update which she said confirms that after millions in taxpayer dollars and multiple high-tech surveys, they have found zero confirmed human remains, zero graves, and zero bodies. Some areas have been ruled out entirely; others show only ‘signatures that resemble burials’.
“Real reconciliation cannot be built on preliminary radar anomalies presented as proven mass graves, nor on silencing elected officials who simply ask for evidence to match the headlines. I stand by the unvarnished truth: we owe survivors honest remembrance, not politically weaponized exaggeration,” said Robinson.
Investigation Welcome
She said if Mayor Ashe believes questioning unverified claims undermines reconciliation, then the real question is why he is more concerned with protecting a narrative than with protecting the truth that actual healing requires.
“I welcome the integrity commissioner’s independent review — because facts matter, and Canadians deserve them,” she said adding, “I will not be silenced for speaking the truth.”
Yesterday’s video statement: https://youtu.be/k3CDJkaDXO8?si=70lqGc9oB3QzkLGR