MPs, leaders reckon with Canada’s ‘dark and painful’ history in House debate on remains discovered of 215 Indigenous children at B.C. residential school

ISG Senator Mary Jane McCallum told the Red Chamber that 'one of my most persistent emotions’ while in residential school ‘was overwhelming loneliness and a bewildering feeling of abandonment.'

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, and Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole. 'We’re not just talking about 215 children over there, near Kamloops," said Mr. Blanchet in Parliament on June 1. "We’re talking potentially about thousands and thousands of children."The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

June 2, 2021

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to immediately accelerate work on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action on missing children and burial information, following the discovery of children's remains buried at a former residential school in Ka...

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