Call to Action meant to break intergenerational impacts of residential schools still unanswered

Instead of empowering the youth who built this framework to move it forward, a large amount of money was earmarked for our purpose and diverted elsewhere in 2019.

Then-Indigenous and northern affairs minister Carolyn Bennett was presented with the grassroots, Indigenous, and youth-led plan for implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's call to action No. 66 in 2018, writes Gabrielle Fayant.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GABRIELLE FAYANT

September 28, 2022

I know from personal experience what it is to feel isolated in an urban environment—to have no resources or support that made me feel safe and connected to my culture and community. This feeling—the culture shock and sense of disconnection of moving away from my family and homelands to Ottawa as...

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