iPolitics AM: Residential-schools legacy and reconciliation
By Kady O'Malley. Published on Jun 3, 2021 6:01am
Shoes have been left at the Centennial Flame on Parliament Hill to honour the 215 children whose remains have been found at a former residential school in Kamloops. Photo: Lindsay Beauchamp / Twitter
Exactly one week after a B.C. Indigenous community confirmed that the remains of 215 children — some as young as three years old — had been found on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, both the harrowing legacy of the residential schools program and the ongoing legal battles over decades of inadequate support for First Nations children are poised to dominate the political agenda on Parliament Hill today, starting with a full day of debate on an omnibus opposition motion that issues a stark challenge to the minority Liberals to commit to “concrete actions for real reconciliation.”