An interesting question, indeed. The answer is tangled in our collective history, and it is complicated a good deal further by our family and personal histories. It seems to me that our ability to take the higher ground suggested by Mr. Kinew will be be influenced significantly by (amongst other things) the distance between our own lives and the Residential School experience. As a comfortably situated middle-class white guy, I have the very good fortune to be able to say "Well said, Mr. Kinew." I get it that there are many First Nations individuals for whom this is not such an easy road...