The Foundations of Reconciliation

2022-12-15

By Josée Lusignan, Co-Founder and President, I Love First Peoples I’ll never forget that cold day in February 2013, arriving in the Algonquin First Nation community of Rapid Lake, Québec, to meet with Jules, the Director of Education. Back home, my living room had become a maze of children’s gifts, piled to the ceiling because of a simple email I’d sent out to friends asking: “would you help me ‘do something?’” I could no longer bear knowing that ch...

By Josée Lusignan, Co-Founder and President, I Love First Peoples

I’ll never forget that cold day in February 2013, arriving in the Algonquin First Nation community of Rapid Lake, Québec, to meet with Jules, the Director of Education. Back home, my living room had become a maze of children’s gifts, piled to the ceiling because of a simple email I’d sent out to friends asking: “would you help me ‘do something?’” I could no longer bear knowing that children across Canada and near me lived in substandard houses without electricity or potable water, facing unfathomable struggles and inequalities...

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IMAGE: Josée with a student in Rapid Lake © Courtesy of I Love First Peoples

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