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OTTAWA – The federal authorities raised the Survivors’ Flag on Parliament Hill immediately as a strategy to honour Indigenous Peoples pressured to attend residential faculties.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was joined by Stephanie Scott, government director of the Nationwide Centre for Fact and Reconciliation, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller, Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal and survivors of residential faculties from throughout the nation.
Trudeau referred to as residential faculties a “shameful” a part of Canadian historical past and says the Survivors’ Flag would function a approach for Canadians to recollect what occurred on the government-funded, church-operated establishments over greater than a century.
The flag was designed in session and collaboration with survivors, with every aspect of the design permitted by the group that was consulted.
Final yr, ground-penetrating radar situated what are believed to be a whole lot of unmarked graves on the grounds of former residential faculties, sparking efforts to recollect survivors.
The flag will stay raised on Parliament Hill till 2024, when will probably be moved to a everlasting dwelling.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Aug. 29, 2022.
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