Senate committee calls for hearing to get answers about withheld residential school records

An interim report by the Senate’s Indigenous Peoples Committee lists several government and religious institutions that have not released records on Canada's notorious Indian residential schools system.

“Denialism involves not only the complete denial of the existence of residential schools […but] it also involves attempts to […] deny basic, established facts about survivors and accounts,” said PSG Senator Brian Francis, chair of the Senate’s Indigenous Peoples Committee.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JESSE CNOCKAERT

July 24, 2023

Representatives of groups that have yet to release records relating to Canada's Indian Residential Schools system will be asked to speak at a Senate committee hearing this fall so they can “explain themselves.”

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