The two main points leading off this article are respect and reconciliation. However it never is fully explained how the average Canadian is supposed to do either of these two things, and in what form it is supposed to come in. Ethnic groups shouldn't remain frozen in time, nor should the past be erased. But cherry picking only those events that cast a negative light on every white person past and present, doesn't set the stage for any meaningfull relationship, but again how are these relationships and dialogue supposed to happen. A great many aboriginals remain isolated from the rest of Canada, and have little contact with the rest of Canada, and continue to live in marginal conditions. If you took three hundred non-aboriginals and plunked them down in the middle of no where, we would fare no better. Respect and reconciliation can only come when aboriginals take their place along side us , instead of always standing apart, focusing only on the past