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OTTAWA – Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said Thursday the government is now actively reaching out to Indigenous communities to fund searches of former residential school sites, but opposition MPs charged that move came only after the discovery of 215 unmarked graves in Kamloops, B.C.
Bennett was appearing at the House of Commons Indigenous Affairs Committee for the first time since the gruesome discovery underneath the former Kamloops Residential School, where a search using ground penetrating radar showed the remains of an estimated 215 children.
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