Government Apology

Letter:

I think that it's a darned shame that the Assembly of First Nations is taking the responsiblity of saying what Native people need in relation to any money or anything that comes from the federal government for the people that suffered the abuse in those schools. I think that all of the native leaders should allow the people that were abused to decide what happens to anything regarding compensation of any kind for those dollars or those programs that comes out of any kind of commission. I think that they're the ones that should make those descision in regard to everything that happens in the future over those monies or any program. I don't think the responsiblity lies with anybody but them because they are the ones that suffered. I think that leaders always try to cash in, whether it be politically or otherwise, on people's pain, just as well as the non-Native. I think that they're just playing their game. I think it's an awful shame.

Pam-Vernon, B.C.