It's frustrating when you hear Canadians say that First Nations groups should "Get over the past. Move on. It happened so long ago" or "Why should we apologize for things that happened so long ago?"
This school was operated by the Catholic Church until 52 years ago. The federal government up to 43 years ago. That's kids who were the same age as our parents being taken from their families. That's one generation removed from most us. As Boreal mentions, this kind of trauma is intergenerational. If our parents lived with this kind of trauma, most of us wouldn't have any of the successes we enjoy. Some might be able to get out from under it but those would be few and far between.
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