OTTAWA —
The nationwide chief of the Meeting of First Nations says there must be one other symbolic gesture made to acknowledge the genocide of Indigenous youngsters if Canada desires to lift its flag.
RoseAnne Archibald says concepts for such an expression can be mentioned when the group’s government meets this week, including nationwide Inuit and Metis leaders should even be concerned.
Questions on what to do with the nationwide flag have surfaced within the lead as much as Remembrance Day, an event on which it has historically been lowered to half-mast as a tribute to troopers who died whereas serving Canada.
The flags on the Peace Tower at Parliament Hill and different federal buildings have been flying at half-mast since late Might, however The Royal Canadian Legion says it plans to lift the flag at Ottawa’s Nationwide Battle Memorial on Nov. 11 earlier than instantly reducing it to half-mast once more.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau requested the reducing of the nationwide flags after the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc nation introduced ground-penetrating radar detected what are believed to be the stays of 215 Indigenous youngsters at a former residential college in Kamloops, B.C.
Weeks later, the Cowessess First Nation close to Regina revealed it discovered 751 unmarked graves, prompting Indigenous leaders and plenty of non-Indigenous Canadians to redouble their requires Ottawa to assist ship justice for residential college survivors.
