Cuthand: Government apology is the first step of many

Next week, Premier Scott Moe is expected to provide an apology to the victims of the so-called Sixties Scoop. This travesty began in the 1960s but it is still ongoing today.
A simple apology won’t be good enough. The premier must rise to the occasion and put a stop to the racist policy of splitting up families and ignoring the Indigenous knowledge and culture of family ties and child raising.
Since European contact we have been viewed as incapable of raising our own children and there is a