Once again, the underlying message "We will not achieve reconciliation unless we get what we want".  This is getting really old,  fast. 

Reconciliation involves atonement and forgiveness.  The government has already atoned. Numerous apologies have been issued, and billions in compensation paid.  Yet the list of grievances keeps getting longer and longer.

The dictionary defines forgiveness as:
1. To give up resentment against or stop wanting to punish (someone) for an offense or fault; pardon.
2. To relent in being angry or in wishing to exact punishment for (an offense or fault).
3. To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example).

Has there ever been even one public expression by FN leadership of forgiveness?  If anything, as apologies and compensation are extended endlessly on an issue by issue basis, we are left with the "original sin" of colonization for which forgiveness will never be forthcoming.

Reconciliation is a two-way street.  Time for FN's to anti up themselves.