The unmarked graves at a Kamloops residential school are testimony to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's failure to make progress on his promise to radically shift Canada’s relationship with Indigenous people, says Independent MP and former Liberal justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.
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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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Are we finally going to come to grips with what we have done to Indigenous people? Will we maintain our horror and anger that 215 children were buried in an…
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