OTTAWA — When Prime Minister Mark Carney took the stage on Parliament Hill for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30, he mentioned a piece of art that he requested be installed in the corridors of power shortly after he took office.

“A Brief History of Northwest Coast Design,” a sculpture by Indigenous artist Luke Parnell, is currently displayed outside the cabinet meeting room in the West Block of Parliament.

Carney said it “depicts a painful part of our shared history” referring to the over 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children who were taken from their families to be sent to residential schools where they were stripped for their identities and their language.

Parnell’s piece is composed of 11 wooden panels with images inspired by both his parents’ cultu

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