‘You Can’t Have Reconciliation Without Justice’: How Non-Indigenous Participants in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Process Understand Their Roles and Goals

A central objective of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada was to foster healing and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. After six years of national and community events, statement-gathering, and archival research, and the well-publicized release of the TRC’s final report in 2015, nearly one in five settler-Canadians remains oblivious to the TRC and most have not participated in reconciliation …