Murray Sinclair built bridges with people he had no reason to trust and remained hopeful that we can, and must, do better
Murray Sinclair takes part in a media scrum, following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report in 2015, on the grounds of Rideau Hall.Nearly a decade ago, on my first day working at the national wire service, I was given an important assignment: cover the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report.– who spent six years hearing the horrors of residential schools – after a closing ceremony held at Rideau Hall.
I called Mr. Sinclair’s office and asked to take him to lunch in the Parliamentary Dining Room in Centre Block. How was my mental well-being even on his radar? Looking back now, I know why: He could not turn off his compassion. I turned to Uber Eats and ordered some bannock from Shelly’s in Winnipeg, an Indigenous bistro. A driver in a small vehicle showed up at the assisted-living home with a big brown bag. Mr. Sinclair was pleased about the bannock, and jokingly told a staff member that it was a big bag of marijuana.
We inevitably talked about some heavy stuff: the state of his health, the stage of life that he was in, the issue of denialism of residential schools, his views on white supremacy and how he still spoke by phone to survivors.and me to Selkirk, Man., where he grew up, and showed us places of significance. We visited a local high school where there is a mural of him on the wall. I could tell that he was exhausted by all of this, but he did it anyway.
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