CANADA
Aboriginal Multi-Media Society
By Shari Narine Windspeaker Contributor OTTAWA
The “general language” used by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in its recently released interim report is a disappointment to Clement Chartier, president of the Métis National Council.
“The report itself speaks in general terms. When one reads it, one would not think that Métis generally were excluded (from the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement),” said Chartier. “Canadians, I don’t think, would understand the specifics of this.”
One of the 20 recommendation calls for the parties to the IRSSA “to address the legitimate concerns of the former students who feel unfairly left out.”
In the preamble to Recommendation 12, the TRC discusses hearing from students who attended schools not on the prescribed list or students who attended residential schools but as day scholars. Métis students are not mentioned as a group.
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