Progress on Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendations ‘glacial,’ says recent report

NDP MP Lori Idlout says she wants to see progress this year on completing the TRC’s Calls to Action related to missing children and burial sites, along with passage of Bill C-273 and amendments to Bill C-38.

NDP MP Lori Idlout says the federal government's slow pace in fulfilling the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action is 'frustrating.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

February 2, 2023

If the current rate of progress keeps up, it could take some four decades for Canada to complete all 94 Calls to Action released by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2015, with only 14 per cent fully completed as of 2022, says a recent Yellowhead Institute report—...

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