Feds need to amp up support, fast, for efforts to uncover the full legacy of Canada’s residential schools

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pictured flanked by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett, left, and then-justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, at the December 2015 even in Ottawa to mark the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report. It's six calls centred on 'missing children and burial information' have yet to be completed.
During its six years of work, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard from more than 6,000 residential school survivors and families about the devastating, generational impacts of the Canadian residential school system. The commission concluded its work in 2015, presenting a six-volume report ...

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