if you know a little bit about the history, this should not surprise you.
the assimilation policy has remained essentially unchanged for the last 250 years, since the 1763 proclamation.
the government of canada intends to eventually get rid of the native population through a combination of eugenics and assimilation. and, we broadly don't understand this, because they've gone out of their way to obscure it.
every once in a while, they come clean - like the chretien white paper did - but the policy has remained unchanged the whole time, and it doesn't seem likely that anything will ever change it.
rather, the indigenous population in canada needs to adopt a more adversarial approach and stop buying into the lie of reconciliation.