Ontario MPP to table bill to make Truth and Reconciliation day a statutory holiday

Ontario’s lone First Nation typical astatine Queen’s Park volition array a measure contiguous to state the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory vacation successful the province.

New Democrat lawman person Sol Mamakwa says the projected Day of Reflection connected Indian Residential Schools each Sept. 30 would marque Ontario a amended place.

Numerous Indigenous organizations crossed the state person pledged enactment for the holiday.

The time is simply a national statutory vacation and respective different provinces and territories person besides made it one.

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The time recognizes the maltreatment suffered by Inuit, First Nations and Métis radical astatine hundreds of state- and church-run residential schools crossed the country.

Mamakwa is simply a residential schoolhouse subsister who has spoken astir the horrors there.