Trudeau called the $125-million agreement ‘another significant step on the path to reconciliation’
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledges the crowd while listening to Phillip Prosper, a Mi'kmaq storyteller, during an event for National Indigenous Peoples Day in We’koqma’q First Nation, N.S., on June 21.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked National Indigenous Peoples Day in central Cape Breton on Friday, where he announced a $125-million agreement with the We’koqma’q First Nation to settle a dispute over reserve land sold in 1862.
The prime minister also paid tribute to all Indigenous Peoples on their national day of recognition, which was first celebrated in 1996. “We have been doing this for the last hundreds of years and we have been fighting, and this is how far we got,” said interim Chief John Leonard Bernard. “Now it’s up to the people of our community to go where we need to go after this.”
The group’s executive director, Blaire Gould, said the investment in education amounts to “investing in the present and future.”
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