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By: Webloggin » Take That Apology and ….

Webloggin » Take That Apology and …. — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:45:16 +0000

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By: balbulican

balbulican — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:12:30 +0000

If that’s the point, then it’s wrong.

I think you should talk to some residential school folks about whether or not they felt the apology was “pointless”. Some probably did. But my impression is that most didn’t. And one who I’m quite close to - my wife, in fact, and a fairly tough and sceptical woman - was a bit shocked at how much hearing the Prime Minister’s words mattered to her.

It was no doubt “pointless” to you. But then it wasn’t intended to address a wrong that you had suffered.

By: Raphael Alexander

Raphael Alexander — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:23:40 +0000

Don’t mind Frank Frink. He frequently misses the point. In this case, that would be the point of apologies for historical transgressions being pointless.

By: Frank Frink

Frank Frink — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:13:39 +0000

Nobody apologized to the Acadians for their deportation.

Mr. Desjardins suffers from a lack of historical knowledge.

As a descendant of Acadian deportees - actually we of Acadian ancestry tend to think of it as a more of an ‘ethnic cleansing’, a term which is also historically acknowledged - I can assure Mr. Desjardins that an apology by Canada, on behalf of the Queen of England, was indeed made in 2003. December 10, 2003 to be exact.

You and Mr. Desjardins would have been better served by checking the facts, ya’ know?

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Steynian 219 « Free Mark Steyn! — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:34:45 +0000

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