CANADA
Hamilton Spectator
OTTAWA — Justice Murray Sinclair says the entire country must join a journey to reconciliation between aboriginals and non-aboriginals — and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to join that journey.
The head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Tuesday wound up a six-year odyssey that chronicled decades of suffering and tragedy in thousands of pages of testimony from victims of the residential school system.
He ended it at with a clarion call for action at a formal ceremony marking the delivery of the commission’s final report.
“Change, of course, will not be immediate,” he said. “It will take years, perhaps generations, but it is important for Canadians to start somewhere and ultimately to create those tools of reconciliation that will live beyond today.”
A survivor in the audience wept as Sinclair spoke of how the commission’s work changed his life and those of his two fellow commissioners.
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