SOME of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 recommendations:
- Adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
- Establish a royal proclamation of reconciliation reaffirming the nation-to-nation relationship between aboriginal peoples and the Crown.
- Solicit from Pope Francis an apology for the role played by the Roman Catholic Church.
- Call a public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.
- Establish a written federal policy reaffirming the independence of the RCMP to investigate crimes in which the federal government may be an interested party.
- Change the oath of citizenship to reflect treaties with aboriginal peoples.
- Establish, through the provincial and territorial governments and the federal government, national standards for foster care and reduce the number of aboriginal children in care.
- Repeal Section 43 of the Criminal Code, the so-called spanking law, in order to outlaw corporal punishment.
- Create a mandatory, age-appropriate curriculum on residential schools, treaties and the contributions of aboriginal peoples taught across Canada from kindergarten to Grade 12.
- Build a residential schools monument in every provincial and territorial capital.
- Increase CBC and Radio-Canada funding to better ensure it can support reconciliation and include the languages and perspectives of aboriginal peoples.
- Pass a federal law establishing aboriginal education standards to ensure children going to school on reserves have access to the same resources as those outside their communities.
- Establish mechanisms to narrow the health-care gap between aboriginal peoples and other Canadians, including building aboriginal healing practices into the health-care system and spending more on aboriginal healing centres.
- Allow trial judges to exempt aboriginal peoples from mandatory minimum sentences and work to reduce the over-representation of aboriginal peoples in prisons and jails.
- Settle residential school claims with those excluded from settlement agreement, including Métis, day-school students and those in Newfoundland and Labrador.
-- The Canadian Press