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By James Peters

Truth and Reconciliation

PM Trudeau to make long-awaited Tk’emlups visit Monday

Oct 15, 2021 | 9:12 AM

TK’EMLUPS — Tk’emlups te Secwepemc (TteS) says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit the community on Monday (Oct. 18). It comes three weeks after the prime minister rebuffed invitations to join Tk’emlups members for an event marking the first ever National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

In a news release, Tk’emlups says Trudeau will join in an event at the PowWow Arbour at noon on Monday. The event is not public, open for TteS members only. It will be live-streamed online.

The event will also feature remarks from Assembly of First Nations Chief RoseAnne Archibald, Shuswap Nation Tribal Council Kukpi7 Wayne Christian, as well as survivors and intergenerational survivors of residential schools.

Trudeau was roundly criticized for travelling to Tofino for a family vacation on Sept. 30, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, rather than attending ceremonies in Tk’emlups.

The nation’s leadership called the prime minister’s failure to even acknowledge two invitations an “insult”.

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Trudeau later apologized to Kukpi7 Rosanne Casimir.

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For more information:

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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• 24hr National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419