“It’s just so frustrating, it’s so frustrating to the communities, so frustrating to the families and it’s something the Truth and Reconciliation Commission fought for every single year of its existence,” she said in an interview.
Turpel-Lafond, a lawyer and former judge who is of Cree and Scottish descent, said she’s also heard anecdotal evidence of children from Alberta and Yukon attending the school, which had a peak enrolment of up to 500 students in the 1950s. The work to identify the remains would have to compare sources including oral history, church records, records from local authorities and lists of children who may have returned home to their respective communities in one year but not the next, Turpel-Lafond said.
Father Ken Thorson, the provincial superior of the Oblates, said in a statement earlier this week that the order is growing into a “deepening awareness” of the harm to Indigenous people caused by colonization and the role it played. Even if that information was available, a forensic human identification expert said the community faces further hurdles in finding relevant DNA comparisons to identify the victims where direct descendants are no longer alive.
Start a criminal investigation and then the records become evidence. Withholding evidence is a crime.
Remove their tax free status. There fixed.
time to demolish all catholic churches and make their tax exemption nul and void
When Genocide takes place the offenders have no choice to deny release of records.
What about records after 1969? Are they available? THe oblates didn't run the school after that year.
The catholic church. Take them to court now its time the government sues them. Enough of the bd
Missionaries need to open files and close this horror, if they don't I would suggest PRISON___time may have altered those who deserve this but it doesn't say a proxy individual should remain FREE__
More than likely the destroying the records as we speak. Before a court orders them to hand them over. And if all these children died of illness, what are they hiding what are they so afraid of🤔
They are not the property of the school, they are the property of the government/ tax payers who paid for the school. By doing this their guilt is signed and sealed😠😡
Religions always do the right and “godly thing”….
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