A couple of quotes from the first few pages:
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In justifying the government’s residential school policy, Canada’s first prime min- ister, Sir John A. Macdonald, told the House of Commons in 1883:
"When the school is on the reserve the child lives with its parents, who are savages;
he is surrounded by savages, and though he may learn to read and write his habits, and training and mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly pressed on myself, as the head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influ- ence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men."8
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To determine the truth and to tell the full and complete story of residential schools in this country, the trc needed to hear from Survivors and their families, former staff, government and church officials, and all those affected by residential schools. Canada’s national history in the future must be based on the truth about what happened in the res- idential schools. One hundred years from now, our children’s children and their children must know and still remember this history, because they will inherit from us the responsi- bility of ensuring that it never happens again.
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