In fact, when you read our full presentation, you will see that the comments have been out there on that. The statistics show there are more children now in the care of children's aid than were ever in the residential schools, so absolutely, an apology will have to be issued 20 or 30 years from now. This is one of the reasons why aboriginal women are concerned about full-day kindergarten in Ontario: it's often in contact with the school system--because their children are showing up without proper coats, without lunch--that they're being identified to children's aid.
It's not that the mothers are walking around at home eating filet mignon and wearing fur coats. When your family doesn't have enough food for two weeks out of the month, you can't send your child with a lunch. If the solution is to come in and tear that family apart and rip those children away because the mother doesn't have the money for lunch, it's a completely backwards thought process.
Not only is it further victimizing the women, but it's violence against those children. We will all be held accountable for that in 30 years when they are further populating the prison systems because of that injustice, and because of having their families torn apart that way at such a young age, for no reason other than the fact their families couldn't afford to provide a decent meal for them to take for lunch.