No healing without Foundation, says TRC [Truth and Reconciliation Commission] chair
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article40561
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2011 April
- Author
- Sison, Marites N.
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2011 April
- Volume
- 137
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 1, 8
- Notes
- "The loss of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, which is winding down operations this spring [2011], is 'tremendous', according to Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). In an interview with the 'Anglican Journal', Justice Sinclair warned that residential school survivors 'are literally without the capacity to continue the healing work that they've started' The loss, he explained, has resulted in 'further anger, further distress, and further alienation of survivors and their families towards the government" (p. 1, 8). "Last year [2010], the federal government decided that funding for the foundation would not be renewed after March 31, 2010" (p. 8). "The foundation, which is aboriginal-managed, was established in 1998 and provided with a one-time grant of $350 million by the federal government as part an action plan aimed at renewing Canada's relationship with its aboriginal people. Since then, the foundation has funded 134 community-based healing initiatives" (p. 8).
- Subjects
- Aboriginal Healing Foundation (Canada) - History
- Sinclair, Murray, 1951-
- Indigenous peoples - Canada - Residential schools
- Healing - India
- Healing - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Native peoples - Canada - Government relations - 1951-