The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has published a report concluding that the removal of aboriginal Canadian children from their families, to be placed in residential schools, amounts to cultural genocide. According to the article, the children’s placement in these schools was part of a government-led policy which subjected many children to “substandard education, malnutrition, abuse, illness and even death.” The report is a culmination of a six-year examination of the history and legacy of these residential schools which includes a review of testimony of residential school survivors, former staff, church and government officials and archival documents. The report shines light on this very dark history.
