CANADA
Leader-Post

The tragic history of Canada’s 130-year Indian residential school system has generated so many public inquiries, commissions, articles, books and radio and TV documentaries some might think there’s nothing else to be learned.

They’d be wrong. Take Justice Murray Sinclair, the distinguished Manitoba judge who chairs what will perhaps become the definitive investigation into the residential school experience – the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

Asked if he’s learned anything new from more than two years of hearings, survivor statements and documentary evidence, Sinclair doesn’t hesitate: “The number of children that died in residential schools shocks me.”