The power of voice: how to best serve the under-represented

Bringing Indigenous voices to the Senate floor through motions, inquiries, and private members' bills is part of counselling our differences.

ISG Senator Mary Jane McCallum, pictured on the Hill in this file photograph. 'We, as Senators, have the ability to transform this knowledge into wisdom and act in a way that promotes and upholds equity and equality, from which would flow greater domestic peace and harmony.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SENATOR MARY JANE MCCALLUM

November 22, 2021

Before I entered residential school at the age of five, I remember when my life was built on my own joyous thoughts, words, and actions, emboldened by the guidance of my parents and relatives. Leaving residential school at 16, all of that was lost, leaving me with the voices of the nuns and priests ...

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