Betty Ann Adam: It’s too late for Wall to apologize to Sixties Scoop survivors – StarPhoenix

It’s too late for a meaningful Sixties Scoop apology from Premier Brad Wall.

He’ll be in office for a few more months, but that isn’t time enough to stop or undo the harm his own policies have inflicted on Indigenous people who still suffer the effects of that culturally genocidal practice.

What is the value of “sorry” from a person who doesn’t stop hurting the recipient of the apology?

It would be easy for Wall to apologize for previous governments that ripped children away from their parents, families, communities, culture and language.

He could acknowledge that too many of them, now adults, still struggle to overcome the disadvantages of starting life as outsiders, often without meaningful human connections.