Sol Mamakwa, Ontario's only First Nation representative, will propose a bill to declare September 30 as a statutory holiday to promote reflection and reconciliation in the province.
TORONTO — Ontario 's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park will table a bill Thursday to declare the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday in the province.
Mamakwa is a residential school survivor who has spoken about the horrors he and his friends experienced there. The day recognizes the abuse suffered by Inuit, First Nations and Métis people at more than one hundred state- and church-run residential schools across the country. At least 3,200 children died at residential schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada found, but former Commissioner Murray Sinclair believed about 15,000 children never made it home.
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