Some apology

What can we make of Harper finally apologizing (on behalf of the country and previous govts) for residential schools, when one of his MPs made racist remarks only hours before? Ease. The minister has apologized, but it's obvious he meant every word, so I don't know that he's apologizing for anything but poor timing.

From CTV:

"Now along with this apology comes another $4 billion in compensation for those who partook in the residential schools over those years,'' said Poilievre. "Now, you know, some of us are starting to ask: 'Are we really getting value for all of this money, and is more money really going to solve the problem? My view is that we need to engender the values of hard work and independence and self reliance. That's the solution in the long run -- more money will not solve it."

Poilievre also told CFRA News Talk Radio that aboriginal chiefs have too much control.

"That gets to the heart of the problem on these reserves where there is too much power concentrated in the hands of the leadership, and it makes you wonder where all of this money is going.

"We spend 10 billion dollars -- 10 billion dollars -- in annual spending this year alone now, that is an exceptional amount of money, and that is on top of all the resource revenue that goes to reserves that sit on petroleum products or sit on uranium mines, other things where companies have to pay them royalties.

"And that's on top of all that money that they earn on their own reserves. That is an incredible amount of money.''