I'd like to comment that symbolically it may have.... Obviously people had different responses to it. I think it can only be made meaningful with real social change, with a real, significant difference in Canada's policy with regard to indigenous peoples.
Again a symbolic gesture is to finally accept through the House of Commons the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It has to be concrete for this to be fulfilled. An apology.... So much is continuing into the present. It's not something that happened, end of story, get on with it. It's so integrated in every present system that we're still repeating those sorts of situations whereby a group of people feel culturally superior and act in that way and a group of people feel culturally inferior and act in that way. It continues.
I like to say that theory without action is nowhere. Well, this apology without action is not going to change my tune there.