Question Period Note: Tk'emlups te Secwépemc/Kamloops Indian Residential School site

Tk'emlups te Secwépemc/Kamloops Indian Residential School site
• Our thoughts are with Survivors, their families and communities as the heartbreaking truth about Residential Schools unmarked burials continue to be unveiled.
• Canada continues to listen to the views of Survivors, families and communities and provide the needed resources to support them on their healing journey.
• Funding is available to support communities in researching, locating, and memorializing those children who died while at Indian Residential Schools.

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If pressed
• In 2017-18, Canada partnered with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation by investing $500K to continue the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on the National Residential School Student Death Register.
• We continue this partnership through a funding arrangement of $2.6M to further develop and maintain the National Residential School Death Register.
If pressed further (59 words)
• We are collaborating to provide additional resources for the development of an online registry of residential school cemeteries and other burial sites (Call to Action 73).
• This collaboration will support the analysis of an additional 2.9 million historical documents held by the National Centre and provide resources for them to respond to Survivor and family requests for information.

If pressed on funding
• On August 10, 2021, the Government of Canada announced $83 million in additional investments in support of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Calls to Action 74-76.
• These investments supplement the $33.8 million announced in Budget 2019 for a total investment of $116.8 million, responding to Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action 72 to 76.
• Funding is for community-led activities to respond to the wishes of survivors, their families and communities to research, identify and memorialize the children who went missing while attending residential schools.