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I always thought Canada was like Australia in that it had done terrible things but was working on fixing them. To hear they're still teaching that it was beneficial shows that they're really far behind on the path to reconciliation.
NZ is good and a bit ahead of Australia, but they're also actively regressing on this front at the moment so huge loss of kudos to them there.
That's not representative of how we're all taught in Canada. Where I'm from, we're taught in school exactly how awful residential schools were, the people responsible for it, and the lasting damage it has caused our Indigenous people. It's not something that's brushed aside like it wasn't an atrocity, and many members of our community are still affected by it.