What does it take to do real reconciliation?

Reconciliation is not superficial lip service, it is not a policy, it is not an approach to apply across a system, nor is it led by the federal government. It is about changing hearts and minds, changing the process of how to make policy, changing the system, and changing the federal government from the inside out.

Not only do Canadians need to come to grips with the facts that the country has ardently fought against Indigenous rights, and just as resolutely stood idly by as children died. But Canadians are also coming to grips with the fact that the federal government is still not acting in the best interest of Indigenous kids, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

September 29, 2021

OTTAWA—Six years after the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and here we are—struggling to get consensus in Canada to even recognize the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Some might say it will take time, but unfortunately that defence has been used ...

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