Chief Calls for a Youth Caucus on TRC Recommendations – Net Newsledger

June 3, 2015

PETERBOUROUGH, ON – The Truth and Reconciliation Commission wraps up its mandate this week in Ottawa. Yesterday, on June 2nd, the TRC formally presented its summary report, which included 94 recommendations.

“This long awaited report and the TRC’s recommendations have some very significant recommendations that shed a light of hope for a path forward,” stated Chief Isadore Day, of Serpent River First Nation – who is also a candidate for the Ontario Regional Chief position; “We must be very focused on this process and not lose momentum, or the attention of Canadians.”

Day has come to the conclusion a Post-TRC Strategy could be effective with three important areas of focus – Juridical – Social – Political.

Day comments, “Coordination, and being focused on specific aspects of a multi-year strategy, can simplify an approach that looks at the formal and legal elements of the TRC findings”.

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