Hymie Rubenstein ——Bio and Archives--December 15, 2025

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December 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s deeply flawed Final Report (see here and here for my first take on it in collaboration with Rodney Clifton) and its 94 demands, more circumspectly termed “Calls to Action.”

A decade ago, the Commissioners captured national attention with their simple but increasingly controversial, even hypocritical, message: reconciliation can’t occur without truth.

Ten years later, the question facing Canada is as stark as it is worrying: what has happened to both truth and reconciliation?

There has been plenty of reconciliation given the billions of taxpayer dollars transferred to indigenous leaders and activists over the past few decades, more recently augmented by extraordinarily unprecedented transfers of Crown lands to various bands across the country. But the truth underlying claims to money and land has largely been ignored, buried, or distorted by these same people and their non-indigenous government and legal system enablers.

One of these aboriginal activists is Tanya Talaga, the Globe & Mail’s habitually overwrought indigenous issues columnist.

As the joyful Christmas holiday season is upon us, I couldn’t help recalling the contents of her joyless, unchristian like December 6 piece titled Truth and Reconciliation, 10 years later.

In her rant, Talaga claims:

By this, she means that few of the 94 Calls to Action in the 2015 final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have been enacted. This slow pace has occurred despite Justin Trudeau’s........

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