Reconciliation means … what? We seem to have lost the thread here. In the last few weeks, the Trudeau Government has deliberately increased distrust and conflict, not respect and conciliation.

First, the Government stripped the Senate's historic amendment from Bill S-3, An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex-based inequities in registration). The Senate's amendment would, finally, have extended equality with respect to status, and transmission of status, to First Nations women. But in the Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs, the Liberal majority stripped out the Senate's amendment, and every Liberal Member of Parliament, except Hunter Tootoo and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, stood in the House of Commons on June 20, 2017, and voted for a stripped down...