Youngchief is part of a national coalition of survivors and family members worried about the trauma that is going untreated when the hearings leave town. It’s one of the main reasons her group opposes the inquiry’s request for a two-year extension recently submitted to the Trudeau government.
“After sharing, too many families have been left with few or no supports, little or no follow-up, and without knowledge of what will become of the information they communicated to the commissioners,” the group says in a letter to politicians shared with APTN.
“Caught between the inquiry’s dysfunction and government inaction, Canadians become little more than voyeurs of the horrific stories shared while systemic inequalities and resulting daily realities of lived violence continue. If the inquiry were aptly implementing trauma-informed practices, families would feel loved, cared for, and willing, without hesitation, to participate in the process; instead, many are reluctant.”
The inquiry’s mandate has commissioners travelling the country to hear intense, painful and always emotional testimony. This Vancouver stop that begins Tuesday is the 15th and final community hearing.
Read more of this article by Kathleen Martens in the APTN National News.
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