Orange Shirt Day

Today I am grateful to be able to live and work on the traditional territory of the Katzie First Nation and Kwantlen First Nation. It was Orange Shirt Day in honour of the Indigenous of our country who were forced to attend a residential school. It especially hits home for me because the building that was used for the Kamloops residential school at the epicentre of  this awakening was eventually converted into a daycare that my daughter attended. 

As we move through our daily lives and go from one day to the next solving the problems that occur along the way, it is important that we not forget those that were here before us and have lived on this land for centuries. We have a wonderful province and country and we thank the Indigenous people who cared for and shaped these lands long before we arrived. May we continue the path of reconciliation and the pursuit of truth through open-hearted learning, dialogue and social justice