No discussion of residential schools and the sixties scoop should omit the role played by the United Church of Canada, the Catholic Church, the CCF (now the NDP), and the Liberal governments including the Liberal governments of Mackenzie King, Louis St. Laurent, Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.  The residential schools and the sixties scoop initiatives were seen at the time as progressive and positive initiatives. Were the Liberal and the CCF politicians evil in promoting them or the United Church and the Catholic clergy evil in implementing them?