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By: Bruce Cheadle The Canadian Press Published on Tue Dec 15 2015
OTTAWA — When Justice Murray Sinclair formally ends the six-year Truth and Reconciliation Commission later this morning with the release of its final report, he’ll be setting a high bar for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Last June, when Sinclair released the damning preliminary report on the legacy of Canada’s residential school system, the former Conservative government said it would await the final document before committing to any of the commission’s 94 recommendations.
Trudeau’s Liberals, however, swept the Conservatives from office in the October general election on a pledge to reset the Crown’s relationship with Canada’s indigenous peoples — including promising to implement all 94 of the proposed remedies laid out in the June summary.
As the final report cautions, “Reconciliation will require more than pious words about the shortcomings of those who preceded us.”
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