Is Canada Keeping Its Promises on Residential School Truth and Reconciliation?
Official title: Examine and report on the government response, dated April 26, 2024, to the committee’s fourteenth report (interim), entitled Honouring the Children Who Never Came Home: Truth, Education and Reconciliation, tabled in the Senate on July 19, 2023, during the First Session of the Forty-fourth Parliament
Why This Matters
Residential schools affected generations of Indigenous families across Canada. If you're Indigenous, this is about whether the government is actually doing what it promised your community. If you're not, it's about whether Canada is living up to its reconciliation commitments. Everyone has a stake in holding government accountable.
What Could Change
The Senate committee could recommend new legislation or funding to support residential school survivors. It might push for stronger accountability measures on reconciliation commitments. Government departments could face pressure to speed up implementation of existing promises.
Key Issues
- Is the government implementing its commitments from the 2023 residential schools report?
- What progress has been made on truth, education, and reconciliation?
- Are survivors and families receiving the support they were promised?
How to Participate
- Submit a written brief to the committee at appa@sen.parl.gc.ca. Briefs can share your perspective on the government's response to residential school reconciliation commitments.
- Watch committee meetings live or view recordings on SenParlVU to follow the testimony of witnesses.
- Review briefs and documents submitted by other witnesses to understand the issues being discussed.