Murray Sinclair’s Legacy – FCPP

December 10, 2024

After Murray Sinclair died in Winnipeg on November 4, 2024, many Canadians learned a good deal about the life and work of the former Senator, Judge, and Chief Commissioner […]

After Murray Sinclair died in Winnipeg on November 4, 2024, many Canadians learned a good deal about the life and work of the former Senator, Judge, and Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). But given how glowing the published tributes were in the mainstream media, it seems right to point out a few things about his work on the TRC that are not laudatory and have not been mentioned in any published accounts.

Like the IRS system itself, Murray Sinclair was a mixture of both light and darkness. After the 7-volume, 3,500-page TRC Report was published in 2015, a group of scholars associated with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy identified several things that were unfortunately not as clearly explained as they should have been by the Commission’s $60 million Report.

Of chief importance is the fact that the Report’s Summary volume failed to summarize the other volumes’ contents adequately. As a great many Canadians — including many mainstream journalists — seem to have read only the 382-page Summary, this was a significant flaw.

Read More: https://fcpp.org/2024/12/10/murray-sinclairs-legacy/