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鈥淪tarting now, we all have an opportunity to show leadership, courage and conviction in helping heal the wounds of the past as we make a path towards a more just, more fair and more loving country,鈥� Sinclair said.

Sinclair was speaking at a media conference following release of a summary of the TRC鱿鱼视频app report into Canada鱿鱼视频app residential schools. It outlined 94 recommendations to redress past wrongs committed against Canada鱿鱼视频app aboriginal peoples. 聽

鈥淭he children who attended these schools were severely punished for practising their cultural ceremonies, for speaking their family鱿鱼视频app language,鈥� said Dr. Marie Wilson, a TRC commissioner. 鈥淩econciliation rests on building aboriginal culture back up, and preserving the languages and ceremonies that the schools tried to eliminate.鈥�

Included in the recommendations are demands that governments implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

鈥淭here are already solutions in place that can help us move forward on reconciliation,鈥� Sinclair said. 鈥淭he UN declaration is an example of this. We need to begin incorporating and utilizing these solutions.鈥�

Achieving reconciliation will require Canadians to be open-minded, said Commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild.

鈥淭here are many who will pull down the blinders and pretend that this isn鈥檛 their issue,鈥� Littlechild said. 鈥淲e are calling on you to open up your mind, to be willing to learn these stories, to be willing to accept that these things happened.

鈥淭his is not an aboriginal issue, it鱿鱼视频app a Canadian issue.鈥�

Grand Chief Harvey Yesno of the Nishnawbe Aski First Nation located in Northern Ontario said he attended two residential schools, as did 11 of his 14 siblings.

鈥淚 personally have come to terms with physical and sexual abuse I have experienced,鈥� he said.

The experience of being separated from his family caused a lot of suffering, he said. But the events that led to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including Prime Minister鱿鱼视频app Stephen Harper鱿鱼视频app apology in 2008, have produced a great deal of healing.

As a Christian who has also 鈥渨alked the traditional way,鈥� Yesno said he found the churches鈥� past treatment of native people unbelievable.

鈥淲e were considered less than other people,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 have reconciled because I have a personal relationship with the Lord.鈥�

Elder Irvin Sarazin, from the Algonquin First Nation at Golden Lake, Ont. said he experienced the impact of residential schools as the child of a father who attended one.

His father didn鈥檛 know how to express love, and carried the trauma with him, he said. His mother took her children to church to prevent them from being taken to residential school. He said he never learned his own culture, language or ceremonies.

He said he was so assimilated that this didn鈥檛 bother him.聽鈥淲e learned our Christian way but our culture was outlawed.鈥�

Today Sarazin said he follows both cultures. He believes 鈥渢he Church is a salvation鈥� but 鈥渢he hurt in the past鈥� has made many native people pull back. 聽

鈥淚 would like to see all these people walking the good path. You can walk your culture but you can also go to church.鈥�

(With files from Robert Du Broy.)