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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: A Message from the Canadian Chamber’s President and CEO, Candace Laing
We must recommit — as businesses, governments, and individuals — to doing better and pursuing reconciliation anew every day.
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The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, first recognized in 2021, seeks to live up to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action by bringing together Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to reflect on the painful legacy of Residential Schools that were still open as recently as 1996. During their existence, these schools were responsible for almost 150,000 Indigenous children being taken from their families. Today, we remember the children who never returned home and honour the Survivors. Today also marks Orange Shirt Day, which brings attention to the ongoing, generational impacts of these schools on Indigenous peoples.
It is a somber day that calls for reflection of a dark period in our history and its consequences, and the need for the continued pursuit of Truth and Reconciliation so that First Nations, Inuit and Métis people may fully share in Canada’s society, economy and bright future.
We must recommit — as businesses, governments, and individuals — to doing better and pursuing reconciliation anew every day.
Candace Laing
President and CEO
Canadian Chamber of Commerce
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