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Why can’t Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologize for his mistakes, considering how he loves to apologize on behalf of Canadians for historic wrongs?

Since he can apologize so easily on behalf of the country for past wrongs done to Indigenous Canadians, Sikh and Jewish refugees, homosexuals and other minorities, why can’t he apologize for his mistakes?

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(When he apologized to Omar Khadr, it was for the conduct of previous governments.)

When he was prime minister, Trudeau’s late father, Pierre Trudeau, wasn’t a fan of the kind of apologizing his son has been doing since he came to power in 2015.

As Pierre Trudeau said in 1984, quoted by J.D.M Stewart in the Globe and Mail:

“I do not see how I can apologize for some historic event to which we or these people in this House were not a party. We can regret that it happened. But why mount to great heights of rhetoric in order to say that an apology is much better than an expression of regret? This I cannot too well understand … I do not think it is the purpose of the Government to right the past. It cannot rewrite history. It is our purpose to be just in our time.”