We (Chairperson Justice Murray Sinclair,
Commissioners Chief Wilton Littlechild and Marie Wilson) are committed to each
other and to the cause of the Commission and we will see this through to the
end. I promise you that we will seek out the stories of all those connected to
the schools who are still alive, from the students and the teachers, to the
managers and the janitors, as well as the officials who planned and carried out
the whole thing.
If you have a story to tell about the schools, we will hear
it. If you cannot come to us, we will come to you. If you cannot speak, we will
find someone to speak for you.
We will go to as many communities as we
humanly can manage and where we can't go ourselves we will send our delegates
armed with our authority to record the stories of those who wish to tell
them.
And in the end we will ensure that the whole world hears their truths
and the truth about residential schools, so that future generations of
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians will be able to hold to the statement
that resonates with all of us: This must never happen again."
28-6- 2011
Inuvik, Northwest Territories
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