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Bob Simpson says it’s not enough to just be shocked and disturbed by the mass grave that was discovered at the Kamloops Residential School.
“As a Council and as a community we need to take this opportunity to really double down on our reconciliation efforts, and get past this business of somehow the settler names that we’ve given to places, or the relationship that we have with the First Nations, you know as it is is the way it should be.”
Simpson is calling on residents to embrace reconciliation, which includes empathy to those who have lived through an attempt to eradicate their language and culture, to work with Council on a cultural enhancement process with First Nations, and to be open to putting First Nations language and culture back into the community.