Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Plans to rename National Aboriginal Day to National Indigenous Peoples Day

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milestone in building the nation-to-nation relationship.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-aboriginal-indigenous-day-1.4170695


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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau marked National Aboriginal Day by promising to strip the name of a residential schools proponent from a federal building and to rename the annual occasion as National Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Trudeau also formally announced that 100 Wellington St. in Ottawa, a heritage building and former U.S. embassy, will become a space dedicated to Inuit, Métis and First Nations communities. 

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During an event outside the building located across from Parliament Hill, Trudeau said there has never been a space dedicated to Indigenous peoples.


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