The Apology

     "We feel that the acceptability of the apology is very much a personal decision of residential school survivors. The Nisga's Nation will consider the sincerity of the Prime Minister's apology on the basis of the politics and the actions of the government in the days and years to come. Only history will determine the degree of its sincerity."- Kecin Mckay, Chair of the Nisga's Lisims Government, June 12, 2008.

     In 2007, the government put in a apology for the residential schools, and the apology was passed in 2008, where the House of Commons gathered to apologize for the governments involvement in the residential school system. The apology was given to the approximately 80, 000 living former students, as well to the their families and communities.

Although the responses to this apology was varied widely, it was the first step towards any form of healing there is.