On the Canadian Government's Apology

A few days ago the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered an apology in the House of Commons.
"The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history." Harper said.
"Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture."
"These objectives were based on the assumption aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were inferior and unequal. Indeed, some sought, as it was infamously said, 'to kill the Indian in the child.' Today, we recognize that this policy of assimilation was wrong, has caused great harm, and has no place in our country."
"The government now recognizes that the consequences of the Indian residential schools policy were profoundly negative and that this policy has had a lasting and damaging impact on aboriginal culture, heritage and language."
"The Government of Canada now recognizes that it was wrong to forcibly remove children from their homes and we apologize for having done this."
"We now recognize that it was wrong to separate children from rich and vibrant cultures and traditions that it created a void in many lives and communities and we apologize for having done this."

Now the Prime Minister of Canada has done one right thing on behalf of the Government that, back then in the nation's earlier time, represented only the population of European descent.
I wonder if the Prime Minister and his Government can really profoundly recognize the real wrong their predecessors committed.
Even if the Canadian aboriginal cultures and traditions were not 'rich and vibrant', and even if it did not 'create a void in many lives and communities', still it was very wrong to forcibly separate children from their homes, not to mention many of these children died through neglect, as well as mental, physical and sexual abuse, in church-run residential schools.
Even if it was a correct assumption that 'aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were inferior and unequal', such policy of assimilation was still profoundly wrong, and it should still not have any place in any country in this world.

How could churches collaborate with a cruel government to commit such evil doings? What were these churches?
They were the churches created by Western cultures to worship God, the only God shared by the Jews, the Muslims, and the Christians.
They were the Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian and United churches.
At the beginning there were no such churches. A few Jews of Judaism believed that Jesus the Christ was the Son of God, and at the same time that He was a priest, a prophet, and also a king, king of the Jews and king of the angels. They followed His teachings.
Unfortunately Christ was betrayed by his own people the Jews and crucified by the Romans. During his short adult life he recruited twelve disciples. Four of them each wrote a Gospel as a narrative of His deeds and teachings. The Four Gospels together with some other Books mostly written by Paul were collected into the New Testament during the early centuries of Christianity, long after His death and resurrection.
Later still, under the powerful influence of the converted Roman Emperor Constantine I the number of believers of Christ grew quite so dramatically. For the first time in history monotheism thrived in this great empire. The believers called themselves Christians. And they called their church catholic, which literally means 'universal' in Greek from which the word was derived. The New Testament, on which their belief in Christ was based, was actually translated from Greek scripts and it was also called the Greek Testament, while the Old Testament was also known as the Hebrew Testament.
In a still later century some believers of Christ separated from this huge and powerful 'universal' church with the Pope as ruler. They began to found their own churches to worship Christ and God. They were the Protestants. The Protestants were so liberal that they established many branches of churches with different names.
Churches in the broad sense are not only the places for worshiping God, they are also the accommodation and schools for the servants of God. With the help of the Bible they are supposed to do all good in the name of God, in order to glorify Him.

Now the Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian and United churches collaborated with the Government as 'joint ventures' to commit something so wrong that the Government had in this later century to apologize to the former students and all the aboriginal people. They committed the wrong doings in the name of education, and also in the name of God.

The Canadian Indian residential school system under the compulsory assimilation policy was one of the evilest series of ideas humans were capable to invent, though still no match for the Australian Constitution that include the Aborigines in the category of fauna!
The Australian Government similarly once forcibly moved mixed-blood aboriginal children from their families. For that the Australian Prime Minister delivered a formal apology to their Aborigines last year.

Thanks to some people who really know how to think, to reason, to reflect, to learn and to rectify, all this is literally history now, a sad chapter though.
It is so sad that the Canadian Government is able to recognize that their predecessors were wrong only after their mission 'to kill the Indian in the child' has been so successfully accomplished, and after the aboriginal cultures have been almost wiped out.
Yet the contemporary Canadian aboriginal peoples could still be called lucky, so lucky that they have survived to tell their stories and accept the apology, so that they may shed their burden with dignity, go on with their life, and collect fragments of their damaged cultures to enrich their future.

For so many reasons, justifiable or not, many governments are yet to have the courage and capability to apologize for what they have done wrong. They keep on doing wrong things, and they never want to address the wrongdoings their predecessors committed.

Like it or not, believe it or not, this is human nature.
Unless a country is fully developed to possess a just social system and well balanced universal higher education provided for the whole population, ordinary people or even the members of the elite can hardly be wise enough to do things right and good, because they simply do not believe they need to, and they do not really know how to think, to reason, to doubt, to reflect, and to learn after all.
They might have been highly educated in an elitism system, they might believe in Jehovah, Christ, Allah, Buddha, Vishnu, or Confucius, they might even be very kindhearted, when they do wrong, as a powerful authority in particular, they just do it really wrong.