A Senate committee is pledging to hold a hearing this fall to demand answers from organizations that have not released records tied to Canada’s residential school system.
In a news release Wednesday, P.E.I. Sen. Brian Francis called it “disheartening” that so many governments and organizations haven’t released information that could bring “a measure of peace” to families and communities of children who died at the government-funded, church-run institutions.
“Canada cannot reconcile with its past without facing this truth,” Francis said in the release.
Francis, who is Mi’kmaw from Lennox Island First Nation, chairs the Senate standing committee on Indigenous Peoples.
The group issued an interim report Wednesday after studying
