"The University of Winnipeg's compulsory policy that all its students take at least one course in an aboriginal subject goes too far."
I taught at McGill University for 25 years both on campus and in First Nations and Inuit communities. When teaching on campus I would ask classes of 100 students, "What do you know about the legacy of the residential schools in Canada?" Perhaps 3 students would put up their hands. After explaining how the government / religious-based schools stole children from their families, denied them proper food and education, and abused them emotionally and physically, my students were both angry and sad. Easy to understand the sadness--but the anger? Angry because their education had failed to give them the history of the residential school and its legacy. The least universities across Canada can do is to require students to take "one course in an aboriginal subject". The most would be to have required curricula at the elementary, high school and college level.