Approaches to Decolonizing Settler Colonialism: Examples from Canada

Canada is among the settler colonial states that con­front their violence history and its present im­plications, inter alia with systematic research and e­vidence based policy recommen­da­tions: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRCC) of Canada issued a re­port about its 7-years’ long work in 2015, and the Canadian govern­ment declared the willingness to push through what the TRCC re­commended as calls to action, to foster post-colonial peace in the country. But what does that actually im­ply in a country that was built on the deep in­trusions of settler co­lonialism? How have state in­stitutions reacted to the call?