Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Ongoing Apologies


In recent years, Canadian governments have been trying to whitewash history with ongoing apologies. While it is believed some of those past government decisions may have been taken for the right reasons at the time, some are now deemed as having been wrong. Whether we are removing from public view anything connected to some less than acceptable decision taken decades earlier or providing tearful apologies and financial settlements for other claimed wrongs, the process has the potential to be never-ending. There are probably not too many people that cannot find something in their past that they may now find troubling by today’s standards. Will we still be apologizing 40-50 years from now for some actions and decisions taken today?

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