Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 62 : Education for Reconciliation (62-65)

Québec Education responses to Viens Commission

November 30, 2021

Québec government is investing $19.4 million to implement three measures covering:

  • direct student support
  • instructional material
  • and program review

The government wishes, in this way, to implement the recommendations of the “Inquiry Commission on Relations Between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress”, and “the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls”, which demanded concrete action in the realm of education. Ensuring that Indigenous history and realities occupy their proper place in courses of study and offering such notions as soon as possible in school paths will, in particular, enhance persistence in school and educational success, in addition to increasing the graduation rate of Indigenous students.