This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

Here's John Bachelor.

The indigenous people of Canada.

I welcome Conrad Black, distinguished by a

for writing at the National Post,

about the policy over many decades,

starting in the 1960s with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the father of the

present Prime Minister, and ranging through the latter part of the 20th century and here we are in the

21st. Some weeks ago you will all recall Conrad Black had written

columns about a controversy that turned out to be a mystery, the allegation that

indigenous children, Native American children, had been buried without ceremony,

without justice at some parts of the still no evidence. I was puzzled. Conrad was very clear about what was going on

that there was some denialism going on by the indigenous people about

everybody's history. Now I've got a little of the history so I start Conrad

by saying good evening to you. Pierre Trudeau 1968. I follow your reporting his

policy was to collapse what was then known as the

Indian Affairs Department into the welfare system and again in the 1980s and

90s prime minister malroney set up a commission on Aboriginal people, a Royal Commission,

and that was inherited by Prime Minister Kretyan.

That finishes the 20th century.

What was driving these policy changes in the 20th century?

Good evening to you, Conrad. Good evening to you, John. Well, for most of Canada's history is an independent country which goes back to 1867

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