Live with Shauna Rae - Day 17 0f 100 Days

Today in Canada is the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.

It's a nat- a, a national day of, of mourning.

It's a somber occasion.

We have what other countries call Veterans Day, which is Remembrance Day.

The National Day of Truth and Reconciliation recognizes those that have suffered, and, and by those, I mean indigenous people, First Nations people, that have suffered at the hands of oppressors.

That includes as victims, survivors, and those who didn't come home from residential schools.

Those that were torn from their families, both th-through the residential school system, as well as 60 scoop, scooped up and taken away from their parents and given away to white couples.

There were actually ads in the newspapers looking for adoptive parents.

Today is a day to find out about that, to learn, to unlearn.

It's often called Or- an Orange Shirt Day.

The orange shirt is from a story by a woman, a residential school survivor, Phyllis Webstad.

She remembered going with her family to the store and picking out a shiny orange shirt, and that shirt was taken away from her when she was taken from her family and made to wear a uniform at a residential school.

And so the campaign is called Every Child Matters.

And so if you see flags or T-shirts with those words, it's because of Phyllis Webstad's story.

But all the stories, particularly of those who never survived.

I'm proud of our country that we have this day of remembrance.

I'm also disappointed in our country that we have a report that was done many years ago by the Tr- Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

So it was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, TRC, calls to action 72 ways that Canada could make reparations.

And we haven't done very well.

Also recently, there have been stories reported of white nationalists and denialists that residential school deaths never happened.