Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole said the residential school system is "a dark and painful part of the Canadian story." "It is time for Canada and Canadians to accept the reality that this is genocide, genocide against Indigenous people," she said. It called on the federal government to work with churches, Indigenous communities and former residential school students "to establish and maintain an online registry of residential school cemeteries, including, where possible, plot maps showing the location of deceased residential school children." More than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were placed in residential schools between the 1870s and 1996. The TRC heard moving and tragic accounts of what happened to Indigenous children in residential schools before releasing its monumental 2015 report.

Source: CBC News June 01, 2021 21:53 UTC