"Dr. Affleck wanted to express his anger that politicians spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the North on showy hospitals that aren't needed instead of on, say, community diabetes clinics and midwives that are. He felt that, too, was a matter for reconciliation. "

People complain about bad choices by politicians and bureaucrats, about health care and education and a host of other things all over Canada, stop making it all about colonialism, white supremacy, etc.

"Was that your decision?" I asked. "Nothing was my decision," he replied."
That was a stupid question. Of course not, he was a kid.

"Currently, in Canada, we have a single system, and that does not represent people of colour in this country." 

The "people of colour" are here because Canada is one of the few countries in the world where citizenship is not based on ethnicity, and people from all ethnicities have been welcomed, unlike most of the countries those people come from.