Sinclair offers true reconciliation, Beyak should show same respect

Senator Murray Sinclair told The Hill Times last week: 'One of the aspects of reconciliation, which I have espoused from the beginning of my tenure as a Senator, and during my time as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is that, in order for us to achieve reconciliation, we have to recognize that there are obligations on both sides of the discussion. Obligations on the part of Indigneous people, and obligations on the part of non-Indigenous people, to figure out how to come together.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

June 29, 2020

Independent Senator Murray Sinclair is one of Canada's leading experts on reconciliation. As the former head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 2009 to 2015, he led the team that documented 7,000 statements from survivors of the notorious Indian residential schools across Canada. The sc...

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