Reconciliation
Commemoration
81. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Survivors and their organizations, and other parties to the Settlement Agreement, to commission and install a publicly accessible, highly visible, Residential Schools National Monument in the city of Ottawa to honour Survivors and all the children who were lost to their families and communities.
At this point, no monument has been commissioned or installed. All the federal government page says on this subject is that work on this Call "is in early planning stages." To me, erecting such a monument seems like such a simple, easy gesture to make, especially considering how many monuments can be found around our country which celebrate people and events directly linked to the genocide of this land's original inhabitants...
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