Indigenous-provincial relationship is a long road. Danielle Smith is making potholes – CBC
Dec 15, 2022
After a sort-of apology for comparing treatment of Alberta to First Nations, she has more amends to make
Apologies (and their evil twins, non-apologies) are so firmly etched into the political playbook that there’s not only a rich treasury of journalism on their typologies, political scientists have also enriched many academic journals with studies and analyses.
The ideal apology is one that acknowledges the mistake, expresses remorse and makes amends.
There’s not much love in the literature for the conditional “if” apology, the sort of one Premier Danielle Smith delivered a day after saying the provincial government gets “treated the exact same way from Ottawa” as First Nations do.
It doesn’t tend to land well, after all, when non-Indigenous people compare their plight to those bearing the intergenerational trauma of land dispossession, subjugation, forced residential schooling, having to sue for rights and recognition, and much more.
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