We're only beginning to confront our own problem with this in the United States, which has been at least as pervasive and severe as in Canada, but much less talked about.

In fact, there is a Catholic residential school in Minnesota in operation TODAY with a horrible history of persecuting Native Americans. Former students say they were tortured, including sexually, and that photos of their rapists still line the walls of the school.

(Maybe Governor Walz, if he and Vice President Harris win, can start to do something about that.)

In the U.S., we have our own problems with mass graves under residential schools, but we so far lack the national will and political determination to confront those problems — to confront the suffering of vast numbers of people, larger numbers than in Canada just because of our larger overall population.

In that respect, Canada is light years ahead of the United States.