CANADA
CTV
Michelle Zilio, CTVNews.ca
@michellezilio
Published Sunday, May 31, 2015
The chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) says next week’s report will show that the residential school system had an impact on nearly all of the social markers used to measure the state of affairs for aboriginal people in Canada.
Speaking with CTV’s Question Period, Justice Murray Sinclair, who lead the TRC, offered some details about Tuesday’s highly-anticipated report into residential schools.
“In our report, which we are releasing, we talk about each of the social indicators that society uses to mark the state of affairs of the indigenous peoples of this country,” said Sinclair.
“And we point out that it’s very rare to find to any social marker in this country that doesn’t have some connection, directly or indirectly, to the residential school experience.”
The residential school system was established in the 19th century as a way to assimilate Canada’s aboriginal children; the last one closed in 1996.
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