‘This time may be different’: pollsters track ‘record’ shift in core public attitudes and find a moral imperative to do something, after Indigenous children’s remains found

Public opinion surveys done after the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops Residential School reveal that 68 per cent of Canadians feel a responsibility to resolve the inequalities that Indigenous peoples face.

The 215 pairs of shoes, pictured June 3, 2021, placed on Parliament Hill in honour of the estimated 215 children whose remains were found on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

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BY ZAINAB AL-MEHDAR

June 24, 2021

Pollsters say the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children found in May at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia has significantly shifted core public attitudes and Canadians are engaged, angry, and want governments to act. And on June 24, the Cowes...

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