All the sad, knee jerk and bigoted chatter in the comments below.  Reconciliation and atonement for history will likely take generations; but it starts with education and with empathy.   Maybe its not too much to ask on so called "Canada Day" to take a moment show some humility and reflection on the millions of nameless indigenous people who lost their lives, their territory, their languages, their entire culture - everything, so this geopolitical fiction, this nation state we all have come to know and love as our home, can even exist?  Indigenous people deserve our upmost respect.