Trudeau had seemed to indicate Indigenous communities would have to give consent for the government to raise the flags. But the source said that is not the case
“I am confident that the conversations with Indigenous leadership on making sure we lower the flag again on November 11 will come to the right solution,” the prime minister said in a press conference at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow on Tuesday.
That was interpreted as a sign that Indigenous communities would have to give consent to the federal government before the flags were raised. The government announced in August that it has committed $321 million for programs to help Indigenous communities search burial sites of former residential schools and to commemorate the children who died. The federal government has received between 50 and 60 requests for help with searches on former residential school sites, funding around a dozen so far.
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