When I was at the Tactics School in CFB Gagetown, I worked for the Colonel who was in charge the unit that handled the OKA uprising. A few years after, he was considering writing a book about it, so he attended some of the aboriginal lecture circuits to hear the other side. On one occasion he attended a presentation being given by Ellen Gabriel, who was a negotiator at Oka. He sat quietly in the audience as she recounted how Canadian soldiers bayoneted old people and even some children during the final arrests. When her presentation ended and questions from the audience were invited he stood up introduced himself and asked her how she could blatantly lie about such a thing. She became shrill and claimed that she could show him the scars on the children and old people if he wanted to see them. He said that he would gladly accept such an invitation. The crowd was lapping it up like spilled milk. Ellen Gabriel never contacted the colonel to show him the scars, but she continued to spread propaganda about the alleged bayoneting.
Utter bullshit.