< Truth panel struggles with N.W.T. event travel
CBC News: Mar 29, 2011 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is worried that more former residential school students will want to attend its next national gathering this June in Inuvik, N.W.T., than it can afford to send. Former residential school students from across Canada's North, as well as officials, media and others, are expected to converge on Inuvik from June 28 to July 1 for the commission's second of seven national events. But there is confusion among some in Inuvik, located about 1,100 kilometres northwest of Yellowknife, about the commission's plans to help fund travel and accommodations costs for former students, also known as residential school survivors, who want to attend the event. Those who help survivors in Inuvik estimate that more than 1,200 people from remote northern communities want to go to the June event. [...] Wilson, along with fellow panelist Wilton Littlechild and chairman Murray Sinclair, are holding local hearings in 19 communities across Nunavik, Nunavut, the N.W.T. and Yukon in the months leading up to the Inuvik event. "Not once did anyone say, 'And by the way, I really want to go to national event ... when is my ticket coming?'" Wilson said. "What was raised again and again and again and again is, 'Thank you so much for coming. I want to set down this load.' And I don't think people care so much about where that load is set down. What they care about is that they have safe environments in which to do that."
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