Reading the Truth and Reconciliation Report
Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace will be sitting in circle and reading the Truth and Reconciliation report aloud with spaces for the public to join in the circle to read.
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Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace - La Voix des femmes pour la paix de la Nouvelle-Écosse sera en cercle et lira le rapport Vérité et réconciliation à haute voix, avec des places disponibles pour permettre au public de se joindre au cercle.
The path to Truth and Reconciliation has no marked end or destination. One understanding, however, of this journey is that we are on this path together and there is urgency to move, to engage, and to learn. The TRC Commission of Canada called on governments, educational and religious institutions, civil society groups, and all Canadians to take action on the 94 Calls to Action documented in the report. The door to cultural genocide opened with the first residential school in 1870. According to “Beyond 94” (CBC updates on the report), as of March 2018, just 10 of the 94 Calls to Action have been completed.
As a group, NSVOW has met weekly for a year in the First Nation's Circle at the Halifax Central Library reading the Truth and Reconciliation commission's report aloud. During Nocturne, the public is invited to sit in circle with us to participate in a continuous reading of the TRC report. In the words of Murray Sinclair, the TRC’s Chief Commissioner, "Reconciliation turns on one very simple concept: I want to be your friend and I want you to be mine. So whenever anything goes wrong, for you or for me, we can fix it. And this country has gone wrong."
