Joe, a great deal of the righteous indignation sweeping Canada right now extends beyond the seizure of children from their families for the purpose of extinguishing their culture and the neglect and abuse of them when they were alive. It's the failure to inform families of children's deaths, demand for payment for returning remains to their families, failure to create and retain adequate documentation of children's deaths and places of interment, and the eventual abandonment of so many burial sites.

A friend asked me if I thought it relevant that many indigenous cultures do not mark graves. I said marking and documenting graves is a thing *we* consider important, and we most signally declined to do so for these children and their families. So I guess imposing our culture on them was important until it would cause us the very slightest inconvenience and expense.

The Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada were both participants in the residential schools scheme along with the Roman Catholic Church. The Anglicans and the United Church accepted legal responsibility and made formal apologies years ago, and began paying restitution. I don't know about the Uniteds, but the Anglicans collect earmarked funds across the country and have sold extensive property to meet their obligations. Of the main-line churches, only the Roman Catholics are evading liability. It's not a good look.