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The Forum: Reconciliation: Healing the Nation

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Canadian boarding school (date unknown) credit: Library and Archives Canada/PA-042133

21/11/2015 GMT

Reconciliation: Healing the Nation

BBC World Service - The Forum, Reconciliation: Healing the Nation

What is the best way to redress historical injustices?

The Forum at Spur Festival in Canada: Reconciliation. With Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, educator Kristina Llewellyn and physician Torsten Klengel

With the recent election of a new, Liberal government, the issue of reconciliation between Canada's indigenous peoples and the rest of the population is again high on the agenda. So what is the best way to atone for the wrongdoings of the past? The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Kristina Llewellyn, professor of Social Development studies at the University of Waterloo; and Torsten Klengel, a German psychiatrist and geneticist now based at Harvard Medical School in the USA offer their views to Bridget Kendall and the Spur Festival audience at the National Gallery in Ottawa.

(Photo: In the 19th and 20th Centuries, tens of thousands of Canadian aboriginal children were sent to church-run, government-funded boarding schools, called residential schools. Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories, date unknown. Library and Archives Canada/PA-042133)

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