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udge at head of residential school investigation resigns
Last Updated: Monday, October 20, 2008 | 3:36 PM ET Comments8Recommend20
The Canadian Press
Justice Harry S. LaForme was appointed head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in April. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
The head of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission has resigned.

Justice Harry LaForme resigned from the panel, which is tasked with documenting the experiences of residential school survivors, the Canadian Press has learned.

In a letter to Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl, LaForme says the commission is on the verge of paralysis because the panel's two commissioners do not accept his authority and leadership.

LaForme, who was appointed chairman of the commission in April, is a justice with the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Over the summer, LaForme expressed concerns that political or bureaucratic interference could compromise the commission, and at the time he said those concerns were delaying the panel's startup.

Over the past century, about 150,000 aboriginal students attended 130 church-run schools, where many were abused physically, sexually and emotionally.

© The Canadian Press, 2008

Thanks GreenTreee: Now There's A Job That I Would Never Be Offered!

Shame Though....I Have Two Children Who Are Owed The Truth: As We Too Are The Product Of The Genocide That Never Ends. We Are "Royal Metis": And Lately We Learned About The EXTINCTION ORDER For OurRelations: By The DOMINION OF CANADA-CORPORATION: WHICH IS STILL THE SAME GENOCIDAL CORPORATION: It Just Changed ITS APPEARANCE!

Which Does Explain My Attitude In Regards To What I Share With Those Whom Continue To Enable It....

Though I Do Thank The 40% Of The 60% Of ELIGIBLE CANADIANS Who Did Not VOTE: Thank Your Apathy Or Fear Or Whatever Kept You From Participating In The EXTINCTION Of The Original People. The Only Mandate STEPHEN HARPER:(PRIVATE MAN) Has Is To CORRECT HIS ERRORS: And Those Of HIS Other PARTIES: Whom OPERATE Unlawfully: Without Sovereign License: Or Permission....Moon.

i hear you,

i read a comment on the article by someone who suggested that a woman be the head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and i have to agree, a woman with no political party affiliations. Maybe even a panel of women, with different ethnic and religious backgrounds, possibly women from outside of canada too, might be a really good idea.

regarding the election, ... well ... i voted once, that was in 1993, and i indirectly voted for kim campbell because i had recalled she 'promised' to lower tuition costs. In hind sight, it is still funny to me, since those who remember the results of the conservative government that election.

i didn't vote due to apathy or fear tho, i was aware of my decision. i in essence voted for 'non of the above', and the only way to vote that way was to not vote.

I figured the NDP was going to win in my preceptory anyways, though it was close. The preceptory has been an NDP strong hold federally since 1993.

i think the more people who don't vote, the stronger the message. Not voting is a way to protest, since protesting these days is a dangerous thing to do in public, especially when police officers (pretending to be protesting) are sometimes causing the initial violence.

my view may change at some point but...i do not find politics to be very inspiring.