So I recently saw The Accountant of Auschwitz, an excellent documentary about the trial of Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving SS men who worked at the death camps. He never killed anyone himself but the prosecution successfully argued that his job basically amounted to holding the door closed while someone was being murdered. For most of it's post war history Germany avoided prosecuting Nazi beyond some token stuff, but now a new generation are trying to find what few war criminals are still alive.
Now I'm watching this thinking "It's easy to judge Germany for letting most their war criminals get off but it's not like we're much better. I don't think anyone was ever prosecuted for the residential school system for example... Wait, Could we do that? Shouldn't we?"
After all the residential school system lasted well into the 60s, - 80s era so plenty of people involved with it are still alive. But although over 5000 abusers within the system have been identified, little to nothing has been down to prosecute. I don't know much about Canadian law, but there are some smart people here so is putting abusers behind bars legally possible? Is that something I should be calling on the government to start doing?