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The pressure is on the Catholic church and the Pope has agreed to an audience with Indigenous leaders from Canada. But is that what we really want or need?
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Our leaders are focused on receiving an apology, but we had an apology from the Harper government, several from Trudeau, and the Anglican and United Churches have apologized, but what good has it done us except for a few feel-good moments?
An apology is the cheap way of getting off the hook. What we need is something we can take to the bank. We need something more substantial than a simple apology. I’m not talking about individual compensation; I’m referring to recognition of what was done to us as a nation. We have intergenerational trauma that has been largely responsible for drug and alcohol addiction and the over-representation of our people in the c