Yes. The idea that we would spend a day to recognize and consider and think about not only residential schools, but more broadly the very negative effects of colonialism for first nations, Inuit and Métis in this country, especially, as I said, in relation to things like relocations and other human rights violations. I think this is necessary. Just last week I was in Arviat, Nunavut, where the Government of Canada apologized to the Arviarmiut, who were relocated three different times in the 1950s. Many of the Arviarmiut, this group of Inuit, died of starvation. This was at the same time as the Nuremberg trials were happening. This was the same time that this country was in a post-World War II period of reflection about the creation of the United Nations and the respect for human rights for all peoples. To think that we could learn from all of these things that have happened in this country, in a separate time and place, with no less power, and I guess just consciousness within this country, is also something that could be very powerful as well.
On January 29th, 2019. See this statement in context.