Feds confuse the funding for unmarked graves evidence search

This September and on this National Day of Reconciliation, take the time to consider the amount of expertise in Indigenous communities, the strength to survive, the strength to come back.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree. The government should cover the costs at searches at all sites with unmarked graves potentially holding the bodies of Indigenous children, writes Rose LeMay.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ROSE LEMAY

August 19, 2024

OTTAWA—In the weeks leading up to the National Day of Reconciliation on Sept. 30, Crown-Indigenous Relations unilaterally cut the funding available to communities to search for unmarked graves at residential schools.

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