A Year of Truth in NewWest

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NewWestminster is poised to proclaim March 2023 to March 2024 as AYear of Truth

Council has directed staff to prepare a proclamation for AYear ofTruth and to make a presentation at a future council meeting to launch this initiative

“AYear ofTruth is an initiative that will connect both city staff and the community to the City of NewWestminster’s truth and reconciliation journey by establishing that truth needs to come before reconciliation,” said a report to council

According to the report, NewWestminster’s reconciliation efforts are motivated by a responsibility to recognize and to honour the deep original connections to this area by Halkomelem-speaking Nations, some of whom lived here along the banks of the Fraser River, and others who passed through by land or water to travel between the territories

“NewWestminster is also the birth place of colonization in British Columbia, as it was the colonial capital,” said the report “The city acknowledges that its very Continued on page 12

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