"Gaps are still large, but we are responding": Carney on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered remarks Wednesday at a commemorative event in Edmonton, Alta., for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – a day that honours the survivors of residential schools and the Indigenous children who never made it home. Between 1857 and 1996, more than 150,000 Indigenous children in Canada were separated from their families and communities and sent to church-run, government-funded residential schools, where abuse, malnutrition and inadequate health care were rampant. Carney emphasized the importance of remembering all aspects of Indigenous history in Canada, not just the positives. He said: “We shouldn't admire the beadwork and forget the children that were forced into uniforms. We shouldn't honour the drum and ignore the years that it was made to fall silent. And we should not hear the truth of residential schools and fail to act on it.” Speaking about the Liberal government’s ongoing reconciliation efforts, Carney said the “gaps ar

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