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Truth And Reconciliation Commission

Residential School System Dept: I am not sure that is entirely the case but that at least is what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported last month after hearing the testimonies of many of those native people who went through the now discredited residential school system, according to CBC. Most Canadians, I'd hazard a guess, had never realized that between the 1840s and 1996, more than 150,000 First Nation, Inuit, aboriginal and Metis children were taken from their families by law and shipped to the residential schools, the majority of them against their will and uncivilized. Primitive. Inferior. Apparently, that is what the rest of us Canadians think of First Nations' people. One thing for sure, most of us newer Canadians had probably never heard of the controversial residential school system until that boil was lanced a few years ago, and the federal government offered a formal apology and established the reconciliation commission to help chart a new future. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.