text: A sensible choice by Trudeau. Talent, performance, energy, vision.
  
  But a manager needs material to work with that is absent. Her being a model and an icon did not stop slide in science and math in the youth. The quality of immigrants is not what it used to be. She does not have a magic wand to wave and lo behold.
  
  Reconciliation with whom? The French were on good terms with the Natives, the Anglos who did the damage are all dead and their descendants powerless, and the New Canadians have no taste for it. Too little, too late, and of no consequence than embed entitlement.
  
  The Natives themselves are not blameless either. The Christians found a culture that was in incessant warfare, cruel, heartless, scalping, no human rights to speak of. Except for land grab, of which there was plenty around anyway, the "sins" were done in good faith - conversions, schooling, etc. to make them all like ourselves. And what was wrong with that? Misguided, nay noble in a way.
  
  Good luck JP, anyway.