Nearly 10 years after appearing as an honorary witness before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon is reflecting on her experience as an Inuk child, when older children in her community started being sent away to residential schools.

Simon said that because she had a white father, she was forbidden from attending a residential school.

"It was a significant event for me on a personal level because I was carrying that guilt," she said in an interview with CBC's . "I didn't really understand it until I started to think about all the kids that went to residential schools and were traumatized, abused."

Being left behind, Simon said she was a witness to the grief of the families in her community. She described attending church with her grandmother, feeling confused wh

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