TRC issues final report

Canada vows to do more than report calls for

 

Last updated 1/16/2016 at 11:22am

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After six years of research, emotionally painful sharing, and months of writing, Justice Murray Sinclair looks at the volumes which make up the Truth and Reconciliation's final report on Canada's residential school system. Sinclair then presented the report to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "We need nothing less than a total renewal of the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples," Trudeau said. "I give you my word that we will renew and respect that relationship."

OTTAWA, ON-After six years of grueling research, hours of emotional sharing, and months of writing, Justice Murray Sinclair presented the Truth and Reconciliation's final report on Canada's residential school system.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated in his speech before the assembly that his government will do over and above what the TRC recommendations call for.

"We need nothing less than a total renewal of the relationship between Canada and Indigenous peoples," Trudeau told the crowd at the convention hall in downtown Ottawa.

"I give you my word that we will renew and...



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