The flaw in this whole misguided exercise is the notion that suffering was unique to indigenous cultures during the migrations of the past several centuries. If more people would stumble into a library they would learn of the horrendous misery suffered by a host of immigrant groups, white or otherwise who Fell upon our shores hoping, often beyond hope, of a better life. I am referring to the living skeletons arriving from the Irish potato famine, the same from the Scottish clearances, the mostly forsaken Bernardo children from England, the remnants of Europe’s Jews who survived Buchenwald , those who fled the Khmer Rouge and others who suffered the not so gentle embrace of other communist regimes.
These people all embraced what Canada had to offer in spite of their trauma and without a government sponsored reconciliation exercise. So I am with Heather Moyse on this one. And when you see a politician waving fatuous commissions of inquiry on this topic at you.......flee for gods sake.