Canada’s special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked graves and burial sites associated with Indian Residential Schools has released the final report of her mandate, providing recommendations on how the government can honor the memory of the thousands of children who were killed at forced assimilation institutions.
Kimberley Murray was appointed special interlocutor in June 2022, a year after 215 suspected unmarked graves were uncovered at the site of the former Kamloops Residential School, which sparked a wave of similar findings from First Nations across Canada.
Murray’s task was to make recommendations on how to establish a “new legal framework and process to support search and recovery efforts, and to advance reconciliation in Canada,” the 285-page executive summary of her final report, released in full on October 29 in two parts, reads.
The report proposes an Indigenous-led Reparations Framework to support the “search and recovery of the missing and disappeared children and unmarked burials,” and provides 42 recommendations for bringing it to fruition.
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