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Canadians traded in the traditional red-and-white garb for Canada Day, donning orange, building memorials and taking part in events as part of a national reckoning with the horrific legacy of residential schools on Indigenous peoples. Many of the special events normally associated with Canada Day were either cancelled or scaled back after the discovery of what appears to be human remains at residential school sites in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
Cowessess First Nation last week said that ground-penetrating radar detected unmarked graves at the former Marieval Indian Residential School, not long after the discovery of what are believed to be the remains of children in Kamloops, B.
And then on Wednesday, the Lower Kootenay Band said a search using ground-penetrating radar had found human remains in unmarked graves at a site close to a former residential school in Cranbrook, B. In his Canada Day message, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the horrific findings at the site of former residential schools have "rightfully pressed us to reflect on our country's historical failures" and injustices that still exist for many.
Together, we have a long way to go to make things right with Indigenous Peoples," said Trudeau, who spent his day with his family. Chants of, "No pride in genocide," echoed from orange-clad crowds of about in the rain in St. John's , to the estimated 3, who marched on Parliament Hill where there was a makeshift memorial of shoes, signifying the young lives lost.
In Montreal , marchers held banners that read "bring our children home," those in Edmonton and elsewhere had shirts that read "Every Child Matters," and the flag atop the Peace Tower was at half-mast to honour the Indigenous children who died in residential schools. And in downtown Halifax , a group of 15 read from the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about the history and legacy of residential schools, and actions that could move reconciliation forward.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde used his Canada Day message to call for transformational change in the lives of Indigenous Peoples, including justice for residential school survivors and clean drinking water and healthy homes in Indigenous communities.
We cannot lose the momentum. New polling suggests Canadians are rethinking the dominant narrative of European settlers discovering Canada making way for Indigenous Peoples being the First Peoples of the land. Polling from firm Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies found that one in every two respondents said Indigenous Peoples "discovered Canada," while one-in-three said it was Jacques Cartier.
The same poll found about six in 10 respondents held a positive view of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, whose likeness has been removed from various public displays over his role in setting up the residential school system. The survey of 1, Canadians in an online panel took place between June 18 and 20, but can't be assigned a margin of error because online panels aren't considered truly random samples. Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, in a Canada Day statement, said reconciliation must be a central focus for the future, but the work starts by building up all people in the country, not by tearing Canada down.
As marchers made their way through downtown Ottawa, they passed by a demonstration at the Supreme Court of Canada building of about people, by police estimates, who at times decried the cancellations of Canada Day celebrations and the public health restrictions, lockdowns and mask mandates that have accompanied the COVID pandemic. The same sentiments spurred protestors in Calgary to swarm and hurtle profanities at Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro, his wife and two young boys at the end of a Canada Day parade, and others heckling of Premier Jason Kenney as he gave a brief speech thanking Albertans for getting vaccinated against COVID Speaking to the CBC News during a visit to an Ottawa farmers' market, Trudeau said he had spoken with people unsure about getting a vaccine who then realized they could do it to help their neighbours and communities come out from the pandemic.
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