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Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Settling the Past?

Author(s) -

Kim Stanton

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

international indigenous policy journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 16

ISSN - 1916-5781

DOI - 10.18584/iipj.2011.2.3.2

Subject(s) - commission , shame , settlement (finance) , indigenous , political science , government (linguistics) , subject (documents) , law , public administration , library science , business , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , finance , computer science , payment , biology

The Indian Residential Schools (IRS) system has been referred to as "Canada's greatest national shame". The IRS system is now the subject of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Unlike other truth commissions that have been created due to regime change, where a majority of citizens sought a truth-seeking process, Canada’s TRC arose as a result of protracted litigation by survivors of the IRS system against the government and churches that ran the schools. This article reviews the genesis of TRC in a legal settlement agreement, along with some of the challenges this origin entails.

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