As for the residential schools, the wealthy in Canada, Britain and France paid large amounts to have their children educated in these types of schools. The Canadian government was providing an education to Indians superior to the education provinces were providing to White children. I am acquainted with an orphaned Metis who, as an accountant, had very successful careers in several large Canadian companies. He openly states that his residential school experience was the best thing that ever happened to him. While he believes that there was abuse in some of the schools he notes that the allegations of abuse have split families where one sibling claims abuse, another claims there was none. Funny how Phil Fontaine, Ovide Mercredi, and Murray Sinclair (and many others) somehow managed overcome the abuse to graduate university with law degrees, only to discover the abuse decades later..

If we are to pay such great respect to our indigenous population, why not get them to tell us what our immigration policy should be? Even the Indians know that the "new Canadians" (the Chinese, Pakistanis, Sudanese, etc.) could give a damn about their "rights".