CANADA
Ottawa Citizen

[with video]

DREW GRAGG

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report into the history of Canada’s residential school system will be released tomorrow in Ottawa.

The commission released its summary report in June, with 94 recommendations for reform.

Then-prime minister Stephen Harper gave the report a cool, non-committal reception. But newly elected prime minister Justin Trudeau is much more supportive and has endorsed the report, pledging to enact its recommendations. He will have to work with premiers, because many of the proposals fall within provincial jurisdiction.

Trudeau promises to launch a new “nation-to-nation” relationship. That relationship will start with reconciling the mistakes of the past and building a better future for Indigenous people.

The Citizen’s parliamentary bureau chief Mark Kennedy has spent years writing about the TRC and the history of Canada’s aboriginal residential school system.

He has prepared this package on what Canadians should know…