Question Period Note: Non-Claim Records Request for Direction

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Reference number:
CIR-2022-QP-00011
Date received:
Dec 17, 2021
Organization:
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
Name of Minister:
Miller, Marc (Hon.)
Title of Minister:
Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations

Suggested Response:

• Our Government is committed to preserving the history of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
• Canada has complied with Justice Perell’s direction to file a proposal outlining the transfer of non-claim records held by the Indian Residential Schools Adjudication Secretariat to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
• The records pertain only to the operations, management, and oversight of the Independent Assessment Process and not records or information relating to survivors.

Background:

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Additional Information:

If pressed on survivors’ documents
• Canada recognizes the importance of preserving a record of the legacy of Residential Schools for survivors, their families, and future generations, while protecting and respecting former students’ privacy.
• Canada supports the decisions of claimants who elect to preserve their histories with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, but that decision must be the survivors and theirs alone.
• Canada fully supports the court’s direction to the Chief Adjudicator to provide notice to Independent Assessment Process claimants that they can preserve their records with the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission.