20 years since Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, still waiting for change

03 Mar 20 years since Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, still waiting for change

When the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) released its final report in 1996, it set out a 20-year agenda for implementing changes to better the lives of Indigenous people in this country.

Those two decades have now come to an end.

“There is a very powerful lesson there, which is that today still, I don’t think it’s changed much,” says Paul Chartrand, 72, one of the original commissioners. Read more…