The federal government has more than $27 million set aside for Indigenous groups who wish to search for cemeteries of Indigenous children who died at residential schools.
TRC requested $1.5M to find mass graves at residential schools. The feds denied the money in 2009
, the government is, by its own admission, still working on things. Pressed this week on when those outstanding four will finally be complete, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted that the work must move at a pace that is determined, above all else, by its Indigenous partners.
The government did spend about $4 million last year to bring 140 people together in 16 different virtual engagement sessions on the issue.
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