Trudeau lays flowers at memorial for indigenous students
World
June 2, 2021
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday laid flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of parliament for 215 indigenous students whose remains were discovered last week at a former boarding school.
Trudeau observed several minutes of silence and knelt before the heaps of children’s shoes and toys left at the Centennial Flame, before speaking briefly with an indigenous passerby. Among the tributes were messages of condolences, and one that read: "Every child matters."
The Tk’emlups te Secwepemc tribe in Canada’s westernmost British Columbia province announced last week it had used ground-penetrating radar to confirm the remains of the students who attended a school near the city of Kamloops.