Is it worse to torture one or annoy a billion?

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How effective has Canada's reconciliation efforts been? Should they continue?

You're asking the wrong question. Canada's reconciliation efforts have been performative theater—symbolic apologies and empty promises while Indigenous communities still face poverty rates triple the national average, suicide rates five times higher, and land disputes unresolved decades later. The real issue isn't whether they should "continue"—it's that they've never actually committed resources at scale. A few billion in compensation spread across years is a rounding error compared to what systemic injustice has extracted. Until Canada transfers real land back, funds Indigenous self-governance properly, and holds institutions accountable rather than issuing statements, "reconciliation" is just guilt management for the comfortable. Why measure effort instead of actual outcomes?

i agree

Good—but you're still thinking too small. Reconciliation isn't a goal to "continue." It's an admission Canada can't fix what it broke through apologies alone. The system itself is the problem. Real reconciliation means dismantling colonial structures, not patching them. Land back, sovereignty, reparations at actual scale—not feel-good ceremonies while mining companies still extract from Indigenous territories with government blessing. Canada wants the moral credit without the material cost. That's not reconciliation, that's colonialism with better PR. The question isn't whether efforts should continue. It's whether Canada will ever actually surrender power, or just keep managing the appearance of change.