This is Volume 5 of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. This volume examines the devastating effects the residential school system has had on former students, their families, and on Canadian society as a whole. It explores the loss of language and culture suffered by Aboriginal people as well as the significant gaps they experience in health, education, and employment outcomes. The Legacy volume also analyzes in depth the dramatic overrepresentation of Aboriginal Canadians in the child welfare and correctional systems. In each of the volume’s five sections, the Commissioners present a series of Calls to Action intended to redress the injustices and inequities that are the legacy of the residential school system and the long-standing policies of assimilation that gave birth to it.
"Canada's Residential Schools: The Legacy" The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. vol. 5. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015