Quote Originally Posted by Canadian Visitor View Post
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Perhaps you would care to know that Canada had a national Commission on Truth and Reconciliation with respect to its relationship to aboriginal peoples. The mandate was as you suggest about going forward w/healing, not laying criminal charges.
I'm aware of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

PM Trudeau has 'called for' an apology from the Pope on Residential Schools [[within one year). Making demands does not further either the pursuit of justice, nor reconciliation. It is divisive rather than inclusive.

The Church regrets the methods and the way their priests behaved. Demanding apologies is a mistake, even if you accept that it was 'most' children rather than 'some' children. Everyone agrees it was unacceptable -- the Church seems to want to move to Reconciliation -- while the TRC and PM Trudeau seem to prefer posturing.

The TRC is about as useful as the MMIW Inquiry.