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I'm not in a position to reject or accept Harper's apology for the residential schools.
This said, I'll believe he—and the filthy and crooked institutions he represents—actually mean it when they come out and say that it was genocide, when they stop playing dirty tricks to undermine indigenous self-determination, when they pay attention to the poisoned water and the crumbling communities, when they end the cancerous blight that is the tar sands, when they sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, when they repatriate the remains of the children murdered by the Canadian state and the churches.
Until then, it's just words. And I don't believe he really means it.
This said, I'll believe he—and the filthy and crooked institutions he represents—actually mean it when they come out and say that it was genocide, when they stop playing dirty tricks to undermine indigenous self-determination, when they pay attention to the poisoned water and the crumbling communities, when they end the cancerous blight that is the tar sands, when they sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, when they repatriate the remains of the children murdered by the Canadian state and the churches.
Until then, it's just words. And I don't believe he really means it.
