Sinclair spoke at the 2023 swearing-in ceremony of Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, the first First Nations person to lead a province. Sinclair called the milestone “Manitoba’s true act of reconciliation” that would usher in a “new phase.”

Murray Sinclair, member of Peguis First Nation, who served as chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, has died.

Through many conversations, he inspired me to initiate the Reconciliation Roundtable in Orillia,' said Orillia senator Gwen Boniface, who called his impact 'immense'

"He was such a giant of a man with a very gentle but incredibly strong spirit," former Saskatchewan senator Lillian Dyck says of Murray Sinclair, who died Monday.

Raised on the former St. Peter's Indian Reserve north of Winnipeg, Sinclair spent 28 years as a judge and received the Order of Canada among other honours WINNIPEG — Murray Sinclair, who was born when Indigenous people did not yet have the right to vote,

WINNIPEG - Murray Sinclair, who was born when Indigenous people did not yet have the right to vote, grew up to become one of the most decorated and influential people