PM apologizes to Residential School victims

[Mitch]

Yesterday (June 11, 2008), Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a formal apology to the victims of residential schools.
Here is his full statement:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/11/pm-statement.html

This was definitely a needed apology, it was definitely well thought. However, there is much more to be done.

[Cattraknoff]

Methinks it would probably work out better if we attempted to properly educate them, that they could be productive in society, and less poor.

[Locke]

Methinks it would probably work out better if we attempted to properly educate them, that they could be productive in society, and less poor.

There seems to be a general assumption that an apology is all required.
I read quite an interesting contribution to The Globe and Mail in the form of a letter to the editor today; the author opined that the belief that those having attended the residential schools will readily accept a simply apology as sufficient are continuing in the assimilative state of mind that was first exhibited by the residential schools themselves.