The simplest thing to help out many a settler who doesn't understand the issue around residential schools is to read Beyak's comments, and substitute the word "Jew" for "Native" and "residential school" for "concentration camp" and "Canada" for "Germany" and then one can easily see how utterly ridiculous Beyak sounds.  Essentially, she is hoping to say that the genocide committed here was a nice pleasant genocide, rather than the bad one in Europe.  That is like taking films like Schndler's list and the new Zookeepers wife and argue that things weren't so bad because there were good Germans who saved around a thousand Jews from the Nazi's.  Indeed.  But millions died.  Millions.  So we overlook the millions and sing the praises of the few thousands.