I'm absolutely shocked to see this viewpoint in this column and elsewhere. To see high-level white journalists and editors  expressing these views in public  as if the last several hundred years never happened,  is shocking to me. Is this elite group of privileged people no longer able to write their own material, that they have to take over the experience of an abused people?  I suppose white writers in Canada assume they are culturally appropriate just because they are Canadian. Read Drew Hayden Taylor's article in this newspaper.  This is shameful.