Walking the path of reconciliation

That's one of the top five talking points in yesterday's throne speech.

I can pretty much guarantee you that four or five years hence there'll have been a lot of talk about that path, but not a whole lotta walking on it.

What does "reconciliation" even mean?

They had everything they needed. They'd flourished for thousands of years.

We came and took away everything they had in a matter of a few hundred years.

We had the guns, germs, and steel.

Having a university administrator offer a tip of the mortarboard to the First Nation on whose stolen land the commencement ceremony is being staged is routinely fobbed off as "reconciliation."

Seems more like "rubbing it in."