Don’t rush to raise the flag just yet

Every single MP, come Sept. 21, should be scheduling in their first trip to the nearest residential school search for unmarked graves, and every single MP should be in an Indigenous community on Sept. 30.

Shoes and stuffed animals, pictured June 1, 2021, were left at the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill to show respect for the lives of the 215 Indigenous children whose remains were found in May on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

September 20, 2021

OTTAWA—It’s been four months since the news broke of 215 unmarked graves from Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc at the former site of the Kamloops residential school in British Columbia. At least 751 unmarked graves were found by Cowessness in the Qu’Appelle Valley the following month in Saskatchewan, ...

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