OTTAWA—The head of a six-year study of Canada’s residential schools legacy used the closing ceremony on Wednesday, June 3, attended by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, to urge a high and urgent priority on reconciliation efforts.
Justice Murray Sinclair, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said the dark history of Canada’s residential schools provides lessons that go far beyond the school experience itself.
“We ended up learning about, and therefore writing about, much more than residential schools, for this history is about so much more than just schools,” Sinclair told a ceremony at Rideau Hall, the Governor General’s residence and symbol of the Crown’s legal responsibilities to Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.
This history is about so much more than just schools.
