But it turns out it was just words, and the trouble with words is they can be empty, and Indigenous Peoples have heard a lot of empty words since Confederation. Just one year after reading the apology, Stephen Harper spoke at the g20 meeting in 2009 and said: “We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them.”6
Who wrote the apology speech??
