Special interlocutor still waiting for Canada’s response to report on disappeared residential school children – CBC

Nov 29, 2024

Senator says he’s concerned about the response given the accountability report requires

Canada still hasn’t responded to the independent official’s investigation that concluded children who died and were buried at Indian residential schools are not just missing but disappeared by the state, making them victims of a crime against humanity.

Kimberly Murray, federally appointed as special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with residential schools in 2022, told senators this week she’s received no word from Justice Minister Arif Virani a month after she hand-delivered him her two-volume final report in Gatineau, Que.

Sen. David Arnot raised the issue almost immediately during Murray’s testimony before the Senate’s Indigenous affairs committee on Wednesday night.

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