Anishinabek Grand Council Chief says there's "hope" with the new government

After six years, the final report on residential school survivors is out, saying it’s time for action on reconciliation between aboriginals and non-aboriginals.

Justice Murray Sinclair, who headed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says it’s important for Canadians to ultimately create “tools of reconciliation that will live beyond today.”

The Grand Council Chief of the Anishinabek First Nation, Patrick Mahdabee says he likes what he’s hearing to date from the new government and “it’s giving people hope”, but the challenge will be putting resources into First Nations communities so that the situation is improved.

He says Justice Sinclair pointed out there are more children in care now than there were in the residential school era.

He says he’s not expecting action overnight and it will take time.

Mahdabee also says they received an apology from the Harper government for what happened at the residential schools and yet the relationship soured after that.