%0 Journal Article
%T The Ethics Of Reconciling : Learning From Canada¡¯s Truth And Reconciliation Commission
%A Emily Snyder
%J Les Ateliers de l¡¯¨¦thique
%D 2010
%I Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al
%X In 2008, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) was initiated to address the historical and contemporary injustices and impacts of Indian Residential Schools. Of the many goals of the TRC, I focus on reconciliation and how the TRC aims to promote this through public education and engagement. To explore this, I consider two questions:1) who does the TRC include in the process of reconciliation? And 2) how might I, as someone who is not Indigenous (specifically, as someone who is ¡°white¡±), be engaged by the TRC?Ethical queries arise which speak to broader concerns about the TRC¡¯s capability to fulfill its public education goals. I raise several concerns about whether the TRC¡¯s plan to convoke the col- lective will result in over-simplifying the process by relying on blunt, poorly defined identity cate- gories that erase the heterogeneity of those residing in Canada, as well as the complexity of the conflict among us. I attempt to situate myself in-between proclamations of ¡°success¡± or ¡°failure¡± of the TRC, to better understand what can be learned from contested truths and experiences of uncertainty.
%K ethics
%K truth and reconciliation commission
%K political science
%K residential schools
%U http://www.creum.umontreal.ca/IMG/pdf_03_Snyder.pdf