Premier Kathleen Wynne will join residential school survivors, Opposition leaders and Indigenous leaders in the Ontario legislature to deliver the province’s response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission at 9:00 a.m. today.
Also speaking today is:
- Patrick Brown, Leader of the Opposition
- Andrea Horwath, Leader of the Third Party
- Isadore Day, Ontario Regional Chief
- Margaret Froh, President, Métis Nation of Ontario
- Natan Obed, President, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
- Sheila McMahon, President, Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres
- Dawn Lavell-Harvard, President, Ontario Native Women’s Association
- Andrew Wesley, Residential School Survivor
Webcast: http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/go2.jsp?Page=/webcast/webcast_main&locale=en&menuItem=dandp_webcast
AT 5:30 a.m. a Sunrise Ceremony was led by Elders Shelley Charles and Jim Dumont. This afternoon there will be a Blanket Ceremony at 2 p.m. This will be an interactive workshop open to the public that teaches participants the history of the relationship between European settlers and Indigenous Peoples in Canada
