What is so surprising about the demand for ‘change’ in reconciliation?

Institutions might just stop protecting processes and procedures that have historically and currently created barriers for Indigenous Peoples. Instead of refusing to consider how to make policies betters, they might consider listening to Indigenous leaders who say: 'things must change.’ This is the point of reconciliation.
The Survivors' flag, an expression of remembrance meant to honour residential school survivors and all the lives and communities impacted by the residential school system in Canada, seen on Parliament Hill on June 21, 2023.

OTTAWA—What is so surprising about the demand for ‘change’ in reconciliation?

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