So we are left with all these difficult choices which, as you suggest, begin with removing the "denial" of the past from our current dialogue and, I suppose, making all kinds of reparations (mostly money I guess) to apologise for the sins of our white, colonial fathers. Well, I'm sorry but I'm well past tired of apologising for things that happened three hundred years ago as are most Canadians (especially those who've emigrated here in the last 50 years or so). And what about the sins of your native fathers? They were, I presume, all saints and were just duped by the colonialists were they? The massacre and bloodshed, the warring of tribes, raping of women etc never happened? Your people's were as much a part of the game as the white man you just were overrun and so, effectively, "lost" control of the land you'd once tried to control. Get over it. Happens to this very day somewhere.  You either want to be Canadian and help build this country or you just want to steal from it.