Call for Action on Truth and Reconciliation

With another devastating discovery, this time at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, CSAE asks that you join our effort to press the government for an accelerated response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (CTAs), including making available the funding that is essential to this work. Thank you to those members who have already sent a letter calling for action following the discovery of a burial site adjacent to the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Six of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 CTAs specifically concern missing children and burial information. CTAs 71-76 ask the federal government to accurately detail the number of children who died, to establish a National Residential School Student Death Register and to locate the bodies of children who died so that they can be properly memorialized. In the years since the release of the Commission’s report in 2015, the bulk of the Calls to Action (CTAs) have not been completed. Implementing the CTAs is crucial to Reconciliation — and to honouring those children who never made it home.

The horrifying discoveries in BC and Saskatchewan make it painfully clear that there is much to be done to confront the deep and pervasive legacy of colonialism. CSAE wants to listen, understand and take meaningful steps to do better as an organization. Please join us in our effort today to support the CTAs and help us stand with First Nations and support Truth and Reconciliation.

Please click here to send a letter to your local Member of Parliament.
If you have not done so already, please read the TRC Report and Calls to Action.

Thank you for your support.


Tracy Folkes Hanson, CAE
President & CEO