The six-day Pope Francis apology tour to Canada was like déjà vu for Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors who have been promised atonement — and treatment as equals — countless times in the past 15 years
Trudeau had come to power in 2015 promising to implement the TRC’s dozens of calls to action — a historic commitment to do everything in the government’s power to improve the lives of Indigenous people.
On the first-ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation last September, a day of somber reflection for many, Trudeau headed to the West Coast for a brief vacation — flying past Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, B.C. He later apologized for an error in judgment. “Our kids do not need to feel this pain, and it stops with my generation,” she said. “I want our children to have a future where their voice is heard. Where they don’t have to worry about being another statistic. Where our people are safe. For our children to have clean drinking water. Where they don’t have to defend their sacred traditional land.”
After his visit to Maskwacis, the pope led a supersized mass at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton and visited a pilgrimage site outside the city. He then flew to Quebec City to meet with Trudeau, as well as local Indigenous representatives. Both apologies fell short in the eyes of Sinclair and other prominent Indigenous advocates. Not to mention Trudeau, who“We don’t have to accept his hollow apology — even if it was meaningful and necessary for some,” wrote Pam Palmater, a Mi’kmaw lawyer and chair in Indigenous governance at Toronto Metropolitan University,. “Apologies are best shown through concrete actions that must come before any request for forgiveness.
But the apology itself won’t chart a path forward, Wesley-Esquimaux said. Seven years after the TRC report landed on the desks of policy-makers and the front pages of Canadian newspapers, she said it’s hard to know how to finish the job.
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