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238 • Truth & Reconciliation Commission163. Canada, Statistics Canada, Violent Victimization of Aboriginal Women, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2011001/article/11439-eng.pdf.164. Canada, Statistics Canada, Violent Victimization of Aboriginal People, 15, http://wgc.ca/pub/85-002-x/2011001/article/11415-eng.pdf; Canada, Statistics Canada, Measuring ViolenceAgainst Women, 67; Native Women’s Association of Canada, Voices of Our Sisters in Spirit, 6,http://www.nwac.ca/sites/default/files/download/admin/NWAC_VoicesofOurSistersInSpiritII_March2009FINAL.pdf.165. Canada, Statistics Canada, Victimization and Offending, http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/85-002-x/85-002-x2006003-eng.pdf.166. Canada, Statistics Canada, Measuring Violence Against Women, 9, 19; Native Women’s Associationof Canada, Voices of Our Sisters in Spirit, 94–95, http://www.nwac.ca/sites/default/files/download/admin/NWAC_VoicesofOurSistersInSpiritII_March2009FINAL.pdf.167. TRC, AVS, Velma Jackson, Statement to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,St. Paul, Alberta, 6 January 2011, Statement Number: 01-AB-06JA11-003.168. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women, 3, http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/pubs/mmaw-faapd-eng.pdf.
The challenge of reconciliationSetting the contextCanada has a long history of colonialism in relation to Aboriginal peoples. Thathistory and its policies of cultural genocide and assimilation have left deepscars on the lives of many Aboriginal people, on Aboriginal communities,as well as on Canadian society, and have deeply damaged the relationship betweenAboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. It took a long time for that damage to havebeen done and for the relationship we see to have been created, and it will take us along time to fix it. But the process has already begun.An important process of healing and reconciling that relationship began in the1980s with church apologies for their treatment of Aboriginal peoples and disrespectof their cultures. It continued with the findings of the Royal Commission on AboriginalPeoples, along with court recognition of the validity of the Survivors’ stories. It culminatedin the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and the prime ministerof Canada’s apology in Parliament in June 2008, along with the apologies of all otherparliamentary leaders. That process of healing and reconciliation must continue.The ultimate objective must be to transform our country and restore mutual respectbetween peoples and nations.Reconciliation is in the best interests of all of Canada. It is necessary not only toresolve the ongoing conflicts between Aboriginal peoples and institutions of the country,but also in order for Canada to remove a stain from its past and be able to maintainits claim to be a leader in the protection of human rights among the nations of theworld. Canada’s historical development, as well as the view held strongly by some thatthe history of that development is accurate and beneficent, raises significant barriersto reconciliation in the twenty-first century.No Canadian can take pride in this country’s treatment of Aboriginal peoples, and,for that reason, all Canadians have a critical role to play in advancing reconciliation inways that honour and revitalize the nation-to-nation Treaty relationship.At the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (trc) TraditionalKnowledge Keepers Forum held in June 2014, Chief Ian Campbell said, “Our history is
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