Article content We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or So that is nine living people from government to start the list. If any of them say they didn’t realize how bad it was, the best thing that could be said about them is that they were incompetent. But forced family separation and “assimilation” was racist, pure and simple. Wasn’t that enough to turn their untroubled heads? David Crombie didn’t understand racism in 1986? Mulroney didn’t? There are reports going back to the 1960s as to how children were mistreated. Did they not read?