Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says she told Queen Elizabeth this week that Canada’s history books should be rewritten to reflect the facts about the relationship between the Crown and Indigenous people.
“I was talking to her about the various situations like in Canada,” Simon told CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault after meeting the Queen on Tuesday. “The historical wrongs of the past and how we needed to change Canada’s history books so that young people could learn what the real history is, without necessarily pointing fingers.
“We talked about reconciliation and I did talk about the need for healing in our country and to have a