Question Period Note: Residential Schools National Monument

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Reference number:
PCH-2024-QP00078
Date received:
Apr 25, 2024
Organization:
Canadian Heritage
Name of Minister:
St-Onge, Pascale (Hon.)
Title of Minister:
Minister of Canadian Heritage

Issue/Question:

Residential Schools National Monument

Suggested Response:

Call to Action 81 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls on the federal government, in collaboration with Survivors, to install “a publicly accessible, highly visible, Residential Schools National Monument in the City of Ottawa to honour Survivors and all the children who were lost to their families and communities.”

Background:

The Government of Canada is named as the lead in this call to action. Canadian Heritage is the designated department given its responsibility as lead department for monuments in the Capital under the Policy on National Commemorative Monuments on Federal Lands in Canada's Capital Region.

Additional Information:

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