Wab Kinew has a personal stake in this scandal. He promoted Joseph Boyden's book The Orenda on CBC's Canada Reads and succeeded in getting it read by thousands of Canadians. The scandal is an embarrassment to him as well. However, I don't think he wants us to feel ashamed. He wants Boyden to accept the terms of forgiveness by owning up to his non-indigenous status. I'm sure Boyden doesn't want to be the lonely white man who is adopted by compassionate elders as that would end his Magic Native status with White Canada. But there's no other way for him to survive. Somehow I doubt he'll be able to write First Nations ever again.