TRC Commissioner changes tune on residential schools as genocide
This was supposed to be a day of celebration for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
This was supposed to be a day of celebration for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Federal Aboriginal Affairs officials planned to stonewall and avoid public questions about comments made by their minister, emails obtained by APTN National News show.
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is wading into the debate over comments made by the federal minister of Aboriginal Affairs.
Residential school survivors expressed outrage Thursday over a statement made by Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan who said the Indian residential school system was not an act of “genocide,” but a case “of education policy gone wrong.”
The residential school experience left thousands of Aboriginal people with emotional and physical scars.