周三，全国各地民众聚集庆祝第六个“全国真相与和解日”，总理马克·卡尼提醒加拿大人民，他们为与过去达成和解所作的努力，可能永远没有终点。
As people gathered Wednesday across the country to mark the sixth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Prime Minister Mark Carney reminded Canadians their endeavour to come to terms with the past may never finish.
“我们正在取得一些进展，但我们知道，和解工作还远远没有完成。伤口依然太深，裂痕依然太宽。和解是一段旅程，而不是一个终点。它是一种态度，而不是一项成就。”卡尼在埃德蒙顿对听众说。
"We are making some progress, but we know the work of reconciliation is far, far from finished. The wounds are still too deep. The gaps are still too wide.
“我们的任务是共同沿着这条道路，尽可能走得远、走得快……我们的责任，尤其是政府的责任，在于反思；而我们将要完成的任务，是共同采取行动。”卡尼在把讲话献给现场的原住民儿童及其家庭时表示，他来到埃德蒙顿，是为了倾听他们的故事，反思加拿大历史上阴暗的一章，并寻找共同向前发展的道路。
Reconciliation is a journey, not a destination. It's an attitude, not an achievement," Carney told an audience in Edmonton. "Our job is to move together as far and as fast down the path as we can … Our responsibility, certainly the responsibility of government, is to reflect, and our task will be to act together." Dedicating his remarks to the Indigenous children and their families in attendance, Carney said he came to Edmonton to hear their stories, to reflect on a dark chapter in Canada's past and to find a way to move forward together.
“这不是加拿大历史上一个久远的篇章，而是一个历久弥新的真相，而真相是正义的根基。”他说，“我们不该选择性地记住历史……也不应在听到寄宿学校的真相后，却不采取行动。”当天早些时候，总督路易丝·阿布尔在迎来她参与的第一个“全国真相与和解日”之际分享了自己的看法。她表示，如果加拿大人民希望建设一个更好的国家，就必须敢于面对那段令人不安的历史。
"This is not a distant chapter in Canada's past, but a truth that endures, and truth is the foundation of justice," he said. "We shouldn't choose which parts of our history to remember … and we should not hear the truth of residential schools and fail to act on it." Earlier in the day, Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour shared her thoughts as she observed her first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, saying that facing an unsettling past is a requirement if Canadians seek to build a better country.
在渥太华国会山升起幸存者旗帜前夕，她承认“真相无法改变过去，[但]它提醒我们，记忆承载着责任——承认这些不公正、从中吸取教训，并确保它们绝不再重演的责任。”
Speaking just before the Survivors' Flag was raised on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, she acknowledged "the truth does not change the past, [but] it is a reminder that memory carries responsibility — responsibility to recognize these injustices, to learn from them and to ensure that they are never repeated."
近4万份寄宿学校记录将被销毁。并非所有幸存者都认为应当如此。视频：为何真相与和解委员会的多项行动呼吁至今仍未得到回应？阿伯提醒加拿大人，幸存者旗帜“既是警示的象征，也是希望的象征。”
Almost 40K residential school records will be destroyed. Not all survivors think they should be VideoWhy several TRC Calls to Action are still unanswered Arbour reminded Canadians that the Survivors' Flag is "both a symbol of warning and a symbol of hope."
她表示，这面旗帜“代表着失去的一切，也代表着坚韧与延续……尽管历经巨大苦难，这些社区的精神、文化、传统和语言仍在这片土地上代代相传。”
She said the flag "represents what was lost, but also what endured and what continues to thrive ... the spirit, cultures, traditions and languages of communities that, despite immense hardship, have carried these legacies on from generation to generation across this country."
阿伯呼吁加拿大人利用第六个全国真相与和解日，“以开放的心态倾听，反思幸存者及其家人所分享的经历。”
Arbour urged Canadians to use the sixth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to "listen with open hearts and reflect on the experiences shared by the survivors and their families."
儿童被迫离开家庭 在埃德蒙顿发表讲话前，卡尼在一份声明中表示，寄宿学校制度“建立在旨在切断儿童与其语言、文化、身份认同及生活方式同化的政策之上。”
Children forced to leave families In a statement released before his address in in Edmonton, Carney said the residential school system "was built on assimilation policies designed to sever children from their languages, cultures, identities and ways of life."
“联邦政府建立并维持了这一制度，加拿大对其造成的深远且持久的伤害负有责任。”加拿大的寄宿学校从1857年运营至1996年。约15万名原住民儿童被迫离开家庭，进入由政府或教会运营的机构。
"The federal government established and sustained this system, and Canada bears responsibility for the profound and enduring harm it caused." Canada's residential schools operated from 1857 to 1996. Some 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to leave their families to attend the government or church-run institutions.
真相与和解委员会（TRC）对寄宿学校进行了多年详尽的研究，揭示了这些学校对原住民造成的毁灭性影响。
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission's (TRC) exhaustive, years-long study of residential schools revealed the devastating impact they had on Indigenous people.
真相与和解委员会发现，这些机构旨在将原住民儿童同化到主导的欧洲裔加拿大文化中，造成了深远的代际创伤和伤害。这些机构以普遍存在的虐待和忽视著称，并导致多达6000人死亡，其中大多数死于营养不良或疾病。
The institutions were designed to assimilate Indigenous children into the dominant Euro-Canadian culture, causing deep intergenerational trauma and harm, the TRC found. They were characterized by widespread abuse and neglect, and led to as many as 6,000 deaths, mostly from malnutrition or disease.
真相与和解委员会报告发布11年后，其94项行动呼吁中只有15项得到落实。CBC新闻在国会山采访了寄宿学校幸存者尤金·阿坎德。
Eleven years after the publication of the TRC report, only 15 of its 94 calls to action have been put into force. CBC News spoke to residential school survivor Eugene Arcand on Parliament Hill.
阿坎德表示，全国真相与和解日有时是原住民“不得不揭露”自真相与和解委员会报告发布以来所形成的“自满情绪”的时刻。
Arcand said the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is sometimes when Indigenous Peoples "have to reveal the complacency" that has set in since the TRC report was published.
“在遵守、甚至是在某种程度上合作和理解这94项行动呼吁方面，我们在寄宿学校历史上还有许多未竟之事。”卡尼在声明中还表示，他的政府欠幸存者的“不仅仅是纪念”。
"In regards to adhering or even addressing some level of co-operation and understanding of the 94 calls to action, we have a lot of unfinished business here in the residential school history." In his statement, Carney also said his government owes survivors "more than remembrance."
“我们欠他们行动。真相与和解委员会的94项行动呼吁仍然是这项工作的路线图。”
"We owe them action. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action remain a roadmap for that work."