Yet for Canada’s Indigenous peoples, the building has served as a different sort of symbol — a reminder of a dark chapter in the country’s history, a particularly heinous time of racism. It is inconsistent with our vision of a strong partnership with Indigenous peoples in Canada,” he said. He said he hoped the building would become an important symbol of the changing relationship between the government and Indigenous peoples. and see that indeed no relationship is more important to this government than that with Indigenous peoples,” Trudeau said. The announcements were made on National Aboriginal Day, although, in future, it would be renamed, too, Trudeau said, and would become National Indigenous Peoples Day.

Source: thestar June 21, 2017 20:07 UTC