‘Reconciliation is not dead,’ TRC commissioner tells Cape Breton audience

May 22, 2025

She said that she still has nightmares. For six-and-a-half years, as a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner (TRC), Marie Wilson and her two counterparts, Murray Sinclair and Chief Wilton Littlechild, heard testimony of 7,000 survivors of Canada’s residential school system.“All I had to do was hear about what happened,” she said. “I didn’t have to live it. Also, I’m an adult. They were children.” Wilson spoke twice in Sydney on Tuesday as she travels the Maritimes introducing her book: “North of Nowhere: Song of a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner…