Still complicit

Re: “Residential school report won’t bring reconciliation,” Barry Cooper, Opinion, July 8.

We are the modern protagonists in the ongoing colonial expansion story. Whenever we spend a dollar, we reconfirm our engagement with the system that ran over the indigenous peoples and the lands that were never our own. It is incumbent on us to learn to reconcile ourselves with our tenure as mutual guests on a planet for which we made no reservations.

Our predecessors made agreements in which we guaranteed our good and neighbourly behaviour in this land. In my opinion, treaty days are as important as Canada Day. We have plenty of legal as well as moral obligations to ourselves, our children and to our neighbours, for resolving the roots of our occupancy in this country. Fred Van Vliet, Didsbury