"Harper must address decades-old nutritional tests on aboriginals: Atleo"

[Posteritatis]

3. I imagine he thought - or wanted to claim afterwards - that that'd be that

You know, do the whole "I said I was sorry, why aren't you over this yet?" schtick.

Canadians have had a really ugly kneejerk reaction to anything First Nations-related for awhile - the first reaction when something bad happens to them is usually "how much of my money will they want now?" - and an out-of-the-blue apology with no action behind it feels practically engineered to encourage more of that response when-not-if future awful things come to light.