Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Settling the Past?

Kim Stanton

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The Indian Residential Schools (IRS) system has been referred to as “Canada's greatest national shame”. The IRS system is now the subject of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Unlike other truth commissions that have been created due to regime change, where a majority of citizens sought a truth-seeking process, Canada’s TRC arose as a result of protracted litigation by survivors of the IRS system against the government and churches that ran the schools. This article reviews the genesis of TRC in a legal settlement agreement, along with some of the challenges this origin entails.

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2002Unspeakable Truths 1999"A national crime" : the Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879 to 1986 1997Shingwauk's vision: a history of native residential schools 2001Unspeakable truths: confronting state terror and atrocity 2001Restorative justice and civil society 2006Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness 1997The Circle Game: Shadows and Substance in the Indian Residential School Experience in Canada.2008The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies

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