Backgroundor six years Since 2007, the commission in truth and reconciliation has traveled throughout the country, Listening of evidence Of the more than 6,500 people who survived the system of the Canadian school. Six thousand and five hundred people, believing in the mandate of the commission, boldly testified, thinking that, finally, they would be heard and will be made in changes. It is difficult to imagine what this should have been – the implementation of abuse and humiliations that can only be described as an internation institution after the mandate for ideological processing established by the state and implemented by the Church.
There is no doubt that schools for residential premises were known as “common institutions” – affection that function in such a way that physically and socially shares those who are performed there from the outside world. It is only necessary to consider the words of the bishop of Vital-Justin Grandin, a powerful defender of the compulsory traffic of children from among the indigenous peoples in these institutions for interned, which in 1875 reported, said: “We inform them of a pronounced disgust for local life, so they will be humiliated when they reminded us of their origin. When they graduate from our institutions, the children lost all the indigenous ones, with the exception of their blood, with the exception of their blood, with the exception of their blood, with the exception of their blood. ”, With the exception of their blood. “, With the exception of their blood.”
Each of these witnesses experienced the power of state determination to eliminate indigenous peoples. It would be hoped that the deconstruction of their identity will eliminate them as barriers to the operation of land and the resources of indigenous peoples. Miraculously, these witnesses, representatives of the survivors throughout the country, were not destroyed. Deeply and irrevocably wounded, yes, but still stands – suitable before the commission authorized them to hear and create the way forward, based on revealing the truth about the origin and intentions of residential schools. The necessary actions were determined from this truth – to correct the mistakes of the past and create a future with guarantees from institutionalized systems based on racism, hatred and the desire to control and depress.
When the final TRC report was presented, in December 2015, this became the culmination of heart efforts – impartial work on behalf of the commission, its employees and all the survivors who came ahead. The report was important, encouraging and brilliant in its clear analysis of what should happen in order to reconcile the story with the truth and be based on a significantly improved future on the understanding of how we are where we are today.
The idea of reconciliation and a deeply different understanding of the history of Canada was rooted in all public bodies, institutions of post -school funds, primary and secondary schools, judiciary and society as a whole. But now we see what we, unfortunately, have repeatedly seen in the past. Ten years later, only fourteen out of ninety -four calls to action were realized. While the website for relations with the crown and indigenous peoples and northern affairs of Canada calls the calls “recommendations”, they certainly are not. They are articulation necessary action, not just a sentence. In this decrease in the nature of calls to action, we see the heart of the problem: institutionalized resistance to significant changes. For example, a call to the action of fifty -five, annual reports from all levels of the government on the progress of reconciliation are required. Not a single annual report was written. This failure demonstrates an important truth: that not one of the main challenges has been realized.
When we focus more carefully on the calls on which the work did not even start, we get an even deeper idea of the factors contributing to the fertile soil for anxious rise in Endism at a school school– That is, denying the testimony of these 6,500 survivors. Negators are those Canadians who cling to the idea that genocide cannot and did not occur in Canada, and confront the facts, on the contrary, located in front of them. The violence of their beliefs, which spreads in frightening speed, finds an excuse in the inability of governments to defend their promises in the process of reconciliation and the indigenous peoples themselves. Therefore, the inaction of the government is also an act of violence, and not just an inability to act.
There can be no reconciliation without truth This is refrain, we hear more and more, as less and less achieved. The introduction of systemic changes, again, is torn by a loud inability to completely cover the truth of the genocide agenda of Canada in relation to the indigenous peoples. In some sense, it is easy to understand why Canada is difficult to consider itself as genocide. However, this acceptance is the only thing that will allow all Canadians, indigenous peoples and otherwise to go beyond the framework of this painful truth and in the era of true reconciliation.
