Murray Sinclair

And I think there's so many examples of this.

And I certainly appreciated the late chair of the TRC, Murray Sinclair, who I want to mention said in 2008, While the TRC heard many experiences of unspeakable abuse, we've been heartened by the testimonies which affirm the dedication and compassion of committed educators who sought to nurture the children in their care.

These experiences must also be heard and that was by Senator Murray Sinclair, the chair of the TRC.

And what I found interesting about that is that I've had the pleasure of reading the entire TRC report, some 3,200 pages.

I have yet to meet only about a dozen other colleagues that have dared to read the report.

Nagant Sinclair, the son of the late Commissioner Sinclair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Justice Sinclair.

He's Murray Sinclair was everything.

He's like every native's uncle that we all miss.

And his son, you know, he has a doctorate, PhD.

We begin with a figure whose life's work was the ultimate manifestation of this necessary confrontation.

The late Murray Sinclair and his memoir, Who We Are.

Yes.

The Honorable Murray Sinclair, who passed away recently, left a monumental legacy.

A truly historic figure in Canada.

As an Anishinaabe member of the Peguis First Nation, the first Indigenous judge appointed in Manitoba, a senator, and the chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, he navigated the absolute heaviest, most entrenched systemic traumas in Canadian history.

Well said.

Before I turn to, um, uh, Frances and, and Leighton for their response about their vision for truth and reconciliation, it's interesting, as the TRC, um, report was being initiated, um, there was a gentleman by the name of Senator Murray Sinclair, who's the chair of the commission, who said, "While the TRC heard many experiences of unspeakable abuse, we have been heartened by testimonies which affirm the dedication and compassion of committed educators who sought to nurture the children in their care.

These experiences must also be heard." And that was, um, a quote, uh, in the Calgary Her- Herald on August the 5th, 2010.

So by the way, that was cited, uh, in more detail in the book From Truth Comes Reconciliation, and that was edited by Rodney Clifton and also Mark Dewolf.

I didn't wanna miss Mark Dewolf.

Frances, your comment.

Well, I find that very interesting that, that, uh, Murray Sinclair, uh, said that in 2010, because he certainly was influenced by all these activists, and became one of the biggest obstacles, in my view, to truth and reconciliation w- uh, with what he did after that.

So-

Tanya Fletcher, CBC News, Vancouver.

In Selkirk, Manitoba, a school has officially been named in honor of Murray Sinclair.

Josh Crabb tells us more.

Nicole Murray Sinclair Middle School.

[clapping]

The new name was made official in a gymnasium at the same school where Murray Sinclair graduated in nineteen sixty-eight and was a star athlete and valedictorian.

Sinclair's son, Niigaan, got emotional when he first saw his dad's name on it.

A lot of tears.