Federal Government: Postmedia News Poll

Truth And Reconciliation Commission TRC Dept: A Postmedia News poll released earlier this week suggested most Canadians think aboriginals are both well-treated and well-funded by the federal government, a view not held by many aboriginal leaders who routinely grapple with poverty and social problems among their people, according to Montreal Gazette. Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC , will meet with the education ministers in Halifax Friday. As head of the TRC, set up by the federal government in 2009 with a five-year mandate, he is charged with documenting the history of Canada's residential school system, which forced 150,000 native children away from their communities and families into government-funded, church-run institutions where many were gravely abused and provincial education ministers will meet with a prominent First Nations representative Friday to discuss better ways of educating Canadians about aboriginal issues, amid what some call a continued widespread ignorance of the challenges facing First Nations, Inuit and Metis peoples. After a while you just have to shake your head and not go into despair, said Beverly Anne Sabourin, the vice-provost for aboriginal initiatives at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont. We have so much more work to do with our Canadian population. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.