Marc Miller
A northern Ontario MP says a plan to release information on residential schools to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is a long time coming.
Charlie Angus says the documents are important to survivors and the historic records of the former schools.
Angus says, “Its taken a long time for the government to admit that they have to turn over these documents. I’m glad that they are finally putting the interests of history and survivors ahead of the interests of protecting the other collaborators in this attack on Indigenous people particularly the Catholic church.”
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says about 12,000 documents will be turned over.
Miller says it should happen in the next 30 to 45 days.
“I think it is time and this is our duty as a government, a moral duty towards survivors who for a matter of closure would need that information and it is information that has been requested of us.”
Miller says the reason they weren’t released earlier was because the churches who ran the schools weren’t allowing it.
(With files from Randy Thoms: Fort Frances)
