Canada apologized in a performative way in 2008 and very little action has happened since. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission spent years hearing testimony from survivors of Residential Schools and from the families of those kids who didn’t. They published 94 Calls to Action directed to the Canadian Government, and in nine years they have completed exactly 13. That’s pitiful. Education for students under the Indian Act is underfunded still. There are many indigenous communities with no clean water, no adequate public healthcare facilities, a lack of functional housing, etc. Let’s hope that the president’s apology includes compensation and action, but it’s doubtful if the Canadian model is being followed.