Senate standing committee chair calls report released this week a 'road map' to help residential school survivors
Senate Standing Committee on Indigenous Peoples chair Senator Brian Francis calls a report released this week a “road map” to help survivors of Indian residential schools and their families.
Witness Donald Worme, independent legal counsel with the office of the special interlocutor, told the senate committee, “The most important relationship is with the federal government, yet it did not compel them to release records.
The committee is also recommending that the federal government take whatever steps necessary to combat the rise of residential school denialism in Canada. “Every time an announcement of anomalies, reflections or recoveries are made, communities are being inundated by people emailing or phoning them to attack them and saying, ‘This didn’t happen,’” she said.It’s a sentiment with which Francis agrees.
Murray also suggested legislation that would allow access to private lands that contain suspected burial sites. The report does not use the word “genocide” when talking about Indian residential schools although the word is used numerous times during testimony.
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