The British government has apologized to the children who were sent to live in the Dominions before 1967. The lion’s share of these children were sent to Canada, where they were known as “Home Children.” Some of these children were adopted into loving homes, while others suffered terrible abuse.
Canada’s government has announced that it will not be giving an apology to the Home Children. I agree with this decision. In many ways, the Home Children were the beneficiaries of the racism of the erstwhile Dominion of Canada. In the Dominion’s racial pecking order, Britons were at the top and were given privileged access. Would-be Chinese migrants, on the other hand, were discouraged. Canada recently apologized to the Chinese for the head tax and the subsequent policy of total exclusion. Surely it would be inconsistent to apologies to the whites who were the beneficiaries of the racist policies.
The Ottawa Citizen recently carried a story of uncharacteristically good quality on the Home Children. Even though the CanWest newspaper chain is bankrupt, this story was lengthy and based on extensive research.
The BBC’s Today Programme, the morning drive-time show on Radio 4, carried this story about the child migrants.
The Past Speaks 
Canada has not apologized to it’s Home Children. Why should it? It was England’s doing in the first place as Canada was only behaving loyal to England and British Law at the time.
It is an English disgrace that has left a forever and foreboding wound in British-Canadian hearts. My father died of old age thinking all along it was his own fault. England showed no mercy.
How dispicable of a supposedly civil-race to psychologically pass along their own disgrace to these children of British blood.