Sol Mamakwa, Ontario's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park, plans to introduce legislation in his Indigenous language to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a paid provincial holiday. He hopes Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservatives will support the proposal.
Ontario 's only First Nation representative at Queen's Park plans to soon table proposed legislation, in his own Indigenous language, to have the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation declared a paid provincial holiday.New Democrat deputy leader Sol Mamakwa , who represents the northwestern riding of Kiiwetinoong, said he hopes the Progressive Conservatives will support the idea of making the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a paid provincial holiday.
The day is an evolution of Orange Shirt Day, an initiative started in 2013 and inspired by Phyllis Webstad's story of having the orange shirt her grandmother gave her taken away when she arrived at a residential school in 1973 at the age of six.He plans to introduce a private member's bill in November to push for a provincial holiday.
"We have not reviewed the proposed legislation so we don't want to presuppose anything," he said in a written statement.Greg Rickford, Ontario's minister of Indigenous affairs, said some First Nations leaders have said a statutory holiday is currently not the appropriate approach and would rather focus on education about the legacy of residential schools and efforts to bring home children who did not return.
Some 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were forced to attend residential schools, the last of which closed in 1996. The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is an evolution of Orange Shirt Day, an initiative started in 2013 and inspired by Phyllis Webstad's story of having the orange shirt her grandmother gave her taken away when she arrived at a residential school in 1973 at the age of six.
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