Second time around: notes on Ottawa’s National Day of Reconciliation

The day was pretty powerful. All you had to hear was part of Dennis Saddleman's recitation of his Monster poem, about one person's residential school trials and survival.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Sept. 30, 2022, with former Senator Murray Sinclair at the National Truth and Reconciliation Day event at LeBreton Flats in Ottawa. Sinclair said the Reconciliation Day should be like Remembrance Day: to be observed and for all Canadians to take part.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY Ken Rubin

October 5, 2022

OTTAWA—The second annual National Day of Truth and Reconciliation events on Parliament Hill and at LeBreton Flats on Sept. 30 were pretty powerful. All you had to hear was part of Dennis Saddleman's recitation of his Monster poem, about one person's residential school trials and survival....

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