A parting commitment to reconciliation from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – regardless if he remains as Leader and/or the Liberals win the next election – would be to commit to real Indigenous data sovereignty.94 Calls to ActionEvery First Nations person living in Canada raised their eyebrows to that promise. We hoped this would be the case, but knew it was unrealistic – the scope of that promise was too great and not unlike the U.S.-devised Marshall Plan to economically rebuild Europe.
This idea is not new. An Indigenous archive would prioritize survivors and the children whose lives are documented in the records over protecting the perpetrators, notes Kimberly Murray, Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools. “Survivors, their families, and communities have the right to know the truth,” Ms. Murray told me on Wednesday, just as her office released its “” report.
about human rights violations committed against them in the IRS system. But wide public access is blocked by a lack of funding to LAC and as such, they are unable to easily digitize most of what they have and hand it over.