%0 Journal Article
%T Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Settling the Past?
%A Kim Stanton
%J International Indigenous Policy Journal
%D 2011
%I University of Western Ontario
%X The Indian Residential Schools (IRS) system has been referred to as ¡°Canada's greatest national shame¡±. The IRS system is now the subject of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Unlike other truth commissions that have been created due to regime change, where a majority of citizens sought a truthseeking process, Canada¡¯s TRC arose as a result of protracted litigation by survivors of the IRS system against the government and churches that ran the schools. This article reviews the genesis of TRC in a legalsettlement agreement, along with some of the challenges this origin entails.
%K truth and reconciliation commission
%K residential schools
%K legal settlement agreements
%U http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=iipj