They are images that should haunt every Canadian. Native children taken away from the parents by the RCMP and sent to residential schools with more cemeteries than playgrounds.
And even though our generation wasn't to blame for that story of brutality and attempted cultural genocide, we can't look away or ignore the problem.
Because it is still an open wound that needs healing.
And as the Globe points out, it was, it is, and it will always be our story. Canada's story.
