The year 2023: reconciliation in review

Perhaps 2024 will be the year that federal departments are forced to report on reconciliation measures, not just empty commitments and intentions. To paraphrase Cindy Blackstock: do the real work so you don’t have to apologize or pay out the settlements yet again.

The recognition for the most impactful work for Indigenous Peoples goes to Cindy Blackstock, pictured at the UNIFOR convention in Ottawa on Aug. 24, 2016. Nobody comes close to the level of impact that she has made for Indigenous kids in 2023, writes Rose LeMay. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

January 8, 2024

OTTAWA—The year 2023 will go down as the year reconciliation mainstreamed into Canadian consciousness. Remember the good old days when reconciliation was stealth, and we could talk about it without enraging the colonialists and white supremacists? Those were the days....

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