Commonwealth countries could learn from Canada's reconciliation efforts, Prince Charles says
Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 2:12 pm
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Canada's ongoing, often painful, attempts at national reconciliation involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities was held up as an example for other Commonwealth countries to consider as many of the 54 nations come to terms with their own pasts.
The words of praise came from Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne who recently toured Canada and said he came away deeply touched by those engaged in the process of reconciliation.
He spoke Friday to the opening session of the first Commonwealth leaders' meeting in four years, being held in Rwanda, a country still struggling to come to terms with the horrific genocide of minority Tutsis in the spring and summer of 1994 — an ethnically inspired bloodletting that claimed 800,000 lives.
Canada's ongoing, often painful, attempts at national reconciliation involving Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities was held up as an example for other Commonwealth countries to consider as many of the 54 nations come to terms with their own pasts.
The words of praise came from Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne who recently toured Canada and said he came away deeply touched by those engaged in the process of reconciliation.
He spoke Friday to the opening session of the first Commonwealth leaders' meeting in four years, being held in Rwanda, a country still struggling to come to terms with the horrific genocide of minority Tutsis in the spring and summer of 1994 — an ethnically inspired bloodletting that claimed 800,000 lives.