So you are saying the commission was just there to whitewash things and not make real change.
I'm saying the commission was an excuse for the native rights industry lawyers and hangers on and activist to make a lot of money and almost none of their recommendations had anything to do with abuses in residential schools. It was part and parcel of the never changing program from progressives who hate and despite Canada, the West and capitalism to demonize this country. It has served to make what was a minor program (most native kids did not go) into some kind of massive national tragedy akin to the natives Holocaust.
All it was, in reality, was an attempt to 'civilize' and educate natives. Misguided, yes, but you have to remember that virtually every member of parliament and PM in the early days, including McDonald, went to boarding schools themselves. They were, in the words of the activists 'ripped from their homes' at a very early age and would spend the rest of their childhood and youths at boarding schools far away from their families save for Christmas and summer holidays. That was the norm.
Were there sexual abuses over the years? Hell, yeah! There were a LOT of abuses in the world back then. Didn't a commission in Pennsylvania just come out with a report about all the abuses by Catholic priests there over the past decades? And there's no reason to think Pennsylvania was any different than anywhere else, nor any reason to believe the Catholic churches were any worse than Baptists, Jews or that religious figures were any more likely to do it than coaches, teachers, doctors or anyone else. Sexual abuse of children was something deeply under the radar of a society which simply did not understand it and did not talk about sex - EVER. But natives were no more targeted than whites or anyone else, and there was no attempt to destroy natives. Rather the opposite.