Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government is talking to Indigenous communities across the country about potentially temporarily raising the Canadian flags on federal buildings and on the Peace Tower in Ottawa, in order to lower them again for Remembrance Day.
“We continue to work very closely with partners, with Indigenous peoples, with communities across the country. There is an understanding of how important it is to be able to lower the flags on Remembrance Day to mark our veterans, to mark people, including Indigenous peoples, who've stepped up to fight for Canadian values and paid the ultimate sacrifice,” Trudeau told reporters during a press conference from the COP26 Summit in Glasgow on Tuesday.
On Monday, Minister of Veterans Affairs Lawrence MacAulay’s office told CTVNews.ca in an email that “discussions” were “underway” between Canadian officials and Indigenous communities.on Trudeau’s request, after ground-penetrating radar located what is believed to be the remains of 215 children in unmarked graves at a former residential school site in Kamloops, B.C.
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