The Government of Canada announces Gathering Strength: Canada’s Aboriginal Action Plan, a long-term, broad-based policy approach in response to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. The Plan includes the establishment of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and a Statement of Reconciliation. The Statement of Reconciliation: Learning from the Past, in which the Government of Canada recognizes and apologizes to those who experienced physical and sexual abuse at Indian residential schools and acknowledges its role in the development and administration of residential schools.
St. Michael’s Indian Residential School, the last band-run school, closes.