I think the issue is absolutely a combination of how Canadians collectively ignore their own racism (both past and present) towards Indigenous people, as well as the institutionalized atrocities that the Catholic Church has gotten away with.
How we continue to give reverence towards an organization that has such a disgusting history when it comes to abuses against vulnerable people is hard to stomach IMO.
That being said, it's not dissimilar to how we as Canadians ignore our own ugly history. It's no doubt a large part of why there seems to be an ingrained racist attitude towards the Indigenous here that is just accepted at large, while at the same time we like to look down upon the US for their own racist issues.
The cognitive dissonance required to ignore what we know has happened to the vulnerable (and continues to happen) is embarrassing.
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