To others, having a big to-do about the country that forcibly removed Indigenous children from their homes and sent them away to schools that seemed to many of the students who attended them more like prisons or work camps and, for at least a few thousand, were death sentences, whether from disease, malnutrition or other causes, in the wake of these revelations, shows how important dealing with our racist, colonial past and present really is. Are countries judged by their worst past actions, which in Canada’s case include other racist policies against people of Chinese, Indian and Japanese descent, to name a few? Or are they judged by their best actions and ideals, even if they fail to lived up to the latter many times? For individuals who have committed crimes, a category in which the number of Indigenous people far outweighs their proportion of the country’s population as a whole, it seems to be the latter.