translate English to French: declared authoritatively that "more injury is done to the children by requiring them to leave their homes to attend Residential schools than if they are permitted to remain at home and not receive a formal education."296 This was all suspiciously self-interested, however, for the department, pushing integration, used Caldwell's view that the schools were not an "environment to foster healthy growth and development"297 as a counter-weight against those who argued for the retention of a particular school or, more broadly, for the continuation of separate and residential education.
Plutôt que d'essayer de tourner définitivement la page et de se concentrer uniquement sur l'avenir des collectivités autochtones, il faut examiner sous un nouvel éclairage ces faits tragiques en essayant de comprendre ce qu'a été le Canada par le passé et ce qu'il continuera d'être tant qu'on n'aura pas officiellement reconnu et condamné les actes répréhensibles qui ont été commis.