And since the church was acting on the direction of the Canadian government of the time?????? It's really not that simple. Apology also indicates fault, which opens the Vatican to lawsuit. And we all know that's coming right. if it weren't for the constant demands for more money by Native people's the apology might be easier to issue.  Jews, who were interned and survived, aka very few, were paid reparations once for the Holocaust and that didn't even come close to compensation for seized lands and property, or the massive loss of life.