City to look at effects of implementing Truth and Reconciliation ‘Calls to Action’
Prince Albert City council unanimously passed a motion that will help them better understand how to implement calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and what the city has already done.
The motion was originally put forward by Councillor Terra Lennox-Zepp. She wanted council to implement three specific calls to action including number 43 which calls on the municipal government to ‘fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation.’
Councillor, Tony Head, who seconded the motion, suggested three other actions from the commission’s report be implemented too.
At the last council meeting, Head had voiced his concerns in a passionate speech about the city not doing enough to carry out the commission’s recommendations.