New TRC Chair Aims To Restore Faith In Process
Monday, September 21, 2009 at 14:29
The new chairman of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission says he’s going to have to work hard to restore the commission’s credibility.
Justice Murray Sinclair says people lost some faith in the commission after infighting forced the resignation of the former chairman and commissioners.
Sinclair says people involved with Indian residential schools were prepared to tell their personal stories, only to see the commission dissolve.
He says he hopes to move the commission’s headquarters to Winnipeg by the end of the year, since most residential school survivors are from western Canada.
Sinclair says such a move would also show the commission’s independence from Ottawa.
The commission is expected to hear the stories of residential school survivors over the next few years.
(Courtesy of the Canadian Press.)