The weekend after my lecture at her North Saanich high school, Nicolle and five of her friends took some of my leaflets and quietly infiltrated the United Church’s annual meeting in Victoria. They made a beeline for the youth delegates’ table and began talking to them about the Indian residential children who had died in droves at the hands of their church.

If your child was raped, tortured to death, and thrown into a pit, would you want to be “reconciled” with her killers? Would you accept an “apology” from them and a bit of money to look the other way?