The man who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canadian residential schools has died.
Murray Sinclair passed away Monday morning in a Winnipeg hospital at the age of 73.
As chair of the commission, Sinclair participated in hundreds of hearings across Canada and heard testimony from thousands of residential school survivors.
He also served as co-chair of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba to examine whether the justice system was failing Indigenous people after the murder of Helen Betty Osborne and the police shooting death of J.J. Harper.
Sinclair graduated from law school at the University of Manitoba in 1979, and eventually became a judge within 11 years - the first Indigenous judge in Manitoba at the time and the second in Canada.
He spent a total of 28 years as a judge.
Sinclair also directed the complex Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest into the deaths of 12 children at Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre.
