Take the TRC Challenge

Episode 91

TRC Reading Challenge

Conversations That Matter features Jennifer Manuel who is throwing down a challenge to all of us to read the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions report, “because there's not enough engagement in our public discourse, there's not enough people actually participating in a dialogue about the relationship between First Nations and non-First Nations in our country and I do not think that you can rightfully participate in that dialogue unless you first listen to the truth that First Nations people have expressed which are contained in that commission report.”

Reconciliation between First Nations and non-indigenous people is rapidly becoming the most important issue facing Canada. The rights of First Nations established in the courts means future development of all kinds in Canada can only happen with the active partnership and participation of First Nations communities. As Bill Gallagher, the author of Resource Rulers points out, “the good news is First Nations want to do business with the rest of the country”

Manuel echoes the sentiment of Buffy Sainte Maire who says, “we can live in harmony if we understand one another’s journey and heal together”.

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