I watched this short video from the home page of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission this weekend and recommend it. It was a good start for my Lenten reflections on reconciliation. 

What strikes me the most is Murray Sinclair’s timetable for this work of reconciliation between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Canadians. Since the state of our current relationship has been established over the past seven generations, we will need patience in the process of creating a new relationship. Not only do I remember the prejudice inherent in my elementary and secondary education experience in Williams Lake in the 1970s and 1980s, I am reminded of the racism embedded in my parent’s education in Chemainus and Ladysmith in the 1940s and 1950s. Change will not happen without a strong commitment by the current and many future generations to learn and act anew.