Reconciliation a two-way street — and takes courage in each direction

James C. McCrae, a former attorney general of Manitoba and Canadian citizenship judge, has produced a blockbuster analysis of the one-sided, biased, and thoroughly negative discussion of Canada’s Indian Residential School on the other side of the paywall.

This is a must read for anyone interested in the way Canada’s elites — indigenous and non-indigenous alike — continue to marginalize and infantilize the country’s aboriginal people by defining them as perpetual victims of societal forces over which they are falsely said to have no control.