All Canadians are victims of Indian residential schools — whether you
attended one of the schools, whether you're an inter-generationally
affected relative, a parent left behind or a non-aboriginal person in
Canada who was fed a false history.
It's important to also acknowledge much of the 96 per cent of Canada's population that isn't aboriginal have had their perceptions of indigenous people and communities altered in a negative way, because they haven't grown up knowing the role their government played in killing the Indian in the child. The government that they learned about in school was a lot more mean spirited and malicious than many Canadians could ever imagine.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/all-canadians-are-victims-of-indian-residential-schools-1.3094349
It's important to also acknowledge much of the 96 per cent of Canada's population that isn't aboriginal have had their perceptions of indigenous people and communities altered in a negative way, because they haven't grown up knowing the role their government played in killing the Indian in the child. The government that they learned about in school was a lot more mean spirited and malicious than many Canadians could ever imagine.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/all-canadians-are-victims-of-indian-residential-schools-1.3094349