Truth vs. Reconciliation?
As Canada’s residential schools commission launches, worldwide precedents suggest we might not get both November 2010
In June 2010, at The Forks in Winnipeg, about 400 people, both Natives and non-Natives, gathered to launch Canada’s first Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It is charged with examining the history of residential schools. The TRC is an outgrowth of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, arrived at in 2007 as the result of a class action lawsuit launched by the…