The federal government is expected to announce on Friday that it will raise, and re-lower Canadian flags on federal buildings and on the Peace Tower, for Remembrance Day. Government sources have confirmed to CTV News that the government intends to maintain the tradition of lowering the flags on federal buildings on Nov. 11.
OTTAWA -- The federal government is expected to announce on Friday that it will raise, and re-lower Canadian flags on federal buildings and on the Peace Tower, for Remembrance Day.
In the months that have followed the discovery of what is believed to be the remains of 215 children, discoveries of hundreds of unmarked graves at other former residential school sites have continued, including the discovery of 751 graves at Cowessess First Nation, near the former Marieval Indian Residential School.
“I’m fine with it,” Cadmus Delorme, chief of Cowessess First Nation, told CTV News, adding that “as Canada, as Indigenous people, we must understand that we are going to be in a state of mourning, of healing, [for] a few years.” “I'm confident that the conversations with Indigenous leadership on making sure we are able to lower the flags once again on Nov. 11 will come at the right solution,” Trudeau said.
“There are 160 residential schools in this country and less than 10 have told their story,” Delorme said. “So we have a ways to go. The flag --keep it lowered to honour the unmarked graves, the children who never made it home, something we all must reflect [on] as Canadians.” “We've had days where police officers who die in the line of duty are normally honoured, that can't be done, because we've been in this prolonged period that is quite unprecedented.
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