So after beginning to understand what my wife's mother went through in a residential school I have strong feelings about this. But after being present for both the 1967 centennial and yesterday's events I think the headline 50 years of Canadian cultural genocide would also be appropriate. It's a complex issue, but although flawed, Canadian culture was truly exceptional, and using stories like this to subtlety create a carte blanche hostility toward Canadian culture and then instead blindly promote arguably less exceptional/less tolerant cultures and customs under the banner of diversity is truly dangerous to us all. Cultural genocide might one day be replaced by actual genocide.