Canada: Reality of residential schools was always there for us to see: Cindy Blackstock (Opinion)
Canadian Lawyer – July 29, 2021
Cindy Blackstock says among the most frustrating aspects of reality for residential school survivors is knowing that the truth was always there for anyone to see. But those in a position of power to make decisions didn’t look. Blackstock, a member of the Gitxsan First Nation in British Columbia, is the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and a professor at McGill University. She has been one of the main drivers of the movement to challenge the inequitable provision of child and family services to First Nations. The human rights challenges she has fought for have resulted in hundreds of thousands of services being provided to First Nations children, youth and families.
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