01-08-2022, 08:48 PM
(01-08-2022, 02:01 PM)jeffster Wrote: The schools were horrible for the kids, and, as you sort of mention, and according to this overview as linked above, the last school close in 1996 -- a full 12 years after P.E. Trudeau retired.
133 of the 139 schools were closed by 1984, the year Mulroney won the election. Three of the remaining six were in the far north, but I could not find anything in my searches that indicated why those six took much longer to close. Two thirds of the schools were closed in the 25 years from 1959 to 1984, most of them in the 1970s.
Did the elder Trudeau delay those closings? I didn't see anything (in my admittedly brief search) indicating that but it's certainly possible. But almost all were gone by the time he retired.
Reconciliation? That's where all of our prime ministers have fallen short, to date.