> The last school was closed in the far distant year of 1996. Do you really think Canada in 2018 is that far removed from 1996? What exactly happened in that in

> The last school was closed in the far distant year of 1996. Do you really think Canada in 2018 is that far removed from 1996? What exactly happened in that intervening period that will prevent such an atrocity in the future? Do you think the school in 1996 was doing the same things as the schools in, say, 1896? Don't you think it's more reasonable to see the 1996 closure as the end (or near the end) of a longer, continuous process, not a binary state change? Unsurprisingly, things are more complicated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system#Self-governance_and_school_closure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...