text: I applaud the more positive statements and suggestions in this piece, but I am disappointed to see the hyperbolic term "mustard gas of that wretched system" applied to the Indian Residential Schools. Like the attempts to sway Canadians' emotions by the use of "genocide" in describing the IRS system, Chamberlin's choice of words clouds and vilifies a system that was complicated, created and run for a variety of reasons -- some of them humanitarian, some fiscally driven, and yes, some self-serving and blinkered by colonizing attitudes. True reconciliation will not come from slurs like this but from rational discourse and a willingness to consider all the facts.