Young Indigenous leaders speak on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Senate 
Young Indigenous leaders speak on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation at Senate 

By David Fraser THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA- Dr. Meghan Beals says she wants Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to resemble Remembrance Day. The Prince Edward Island physician is one of five young Indigenous leaders who were in Ottawa Monday to speak to a Senate committee ahead of the federal statutory holiday this Friday. Beals told senators that the day should include a moment of silence to remember the past and feature events in communities across the country to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ contributions to Canada. “That’s really how I would see Truth and Reconciliation Day, is having something that during that day, we have community events, ceremonial events,” she told senators. She suggested that at 10 a.m., people could take a moment of silence “for the children who have

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