The Minister of Indigenous Affairs stresses the provincial government supports further investigation of former Indian residential school grounds in Ontario.
Greg Rickford is responding to calls for a search of all sites in the wake of the Kamloops B.C. discovery.
The Kenora-Rainy River MPP says the province will work in partnership with the Federal Government and Indigenous communities to move the important work forward.
Rickford stresses they are committed to the calls to action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
He says the residential school era is a dark chapter in Canada’s history, with Indigenous families and communities continuing to experience multi-generational trauma as a result of a terrible system.
He notes this discovery hits close to home for many First Nations people across the country and in Ontario who lost family and community members to the residential school system.
Our government supports further investigation of former Indian residential school grounds in Ontario.
See my full statement below: pic.twitter.com/Z8EUBfMBKd
— Greg Rickford (@GregRickford) May 31, 2021
