Students from three Lester B. Pearson high schools will be attending the Truth and Reconciliation commission hearings being held at Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel this week.
Forty-five students from Westwood Senior, Lindsay Place and John Rennie High School will participate in events scheduled for Wednesday, April 24.
The students will be accompanied by Sue Simatos, a John Rennie High School spiritual animator, who said students have been learning about the commission’s work as part of their studies this year.
The students will be attending a Youth Forum in the hotel’s Grand Salon — this will be a series of testimonials by First Nations children about the impact of residential schools on their families, a gift exchange and a tribute to the survivors.
The TRC is a federal commission set up to look into the human rights violations of First Nations children forced by the Canadian Government to attend residential schools in Canada.