Helping to Give People a Voice For John Trueman ’96, his interest in the law was piqued at a young age. “Probably the earliest I can think of is sort of this innate feeling of injustice. And it’s hard to even define, because a feeling that something is unjust is very visceral—something isn’t right or isn’t fair, really kind of sparked it.” After he graduated from Pickering College, Trueman completed his undergraduate degree in Canadian Studies from Simon Fraser University. With his sights set on a career in law, in 2003, he decided to first take on what was meant to be a two-year position with a new alternative dispute resolution project. That project quickly morphed to become the place where survivors of Canada’s residential school system could seek and receive compensation for the abuse they faced as Indigenous children at the hands of these institutions. “It became very apparent to everyone that the scope of what we were doing was not sufficient to address the broader legacy of residential schools.” In 2005, the Government of Canada
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