Senator Murray Sinclair, who headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, has opined often that with up to 25,000 residential school students unaccounted for, we should expect to find some graves.
So how is the nation shocked whenever a few more come to light?
There's no sugar-coating it. The settlers came from Europe and stole the entire continent, indeed, the entire hemisphere, from the Indigenous inhabitants.
There will be graves and more graves.
Against this current events background, the Prime Minister of Canada saw fit to lecture China today on the state of human rights there. At least we're acknowledging our past and making things better.
That's true insofar as insincere apologies and empty promises make things better.
Those human-rights-denying commies in China have pulled several hundred million of their people out of poverty in the last quarter century.
There are Indigenous communities in Canada that didn't have potable water a quarter century ago and still don't have it today.
How about we stop with the bullshit symbolic gestures and fake moral agony and crocodile tears in front of the TV cameras, and get on with actually delivering the goods.
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