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Aboriginal Canadians

'Truth and reconciliation begins with truth telling'
"There are many very successful people today that went to those schools and have brilliant careers and are very functional people, very happy people like myself."
You simply cannot live in Canada and ignore the past. It's a pretty strong statement but reading the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Aboriginal residential schools, that's the conclusion I've come to. The truth may be out but the reconciliation is going to take a while. So just as all Canadians share accountability for what is past, we also share a responsibility for making things better.