OTTAWA — A final report into missing children and unmarked graves at residential schools is calling on the federal government to create an Indigenous-led national commission with a 20-year mandate to investigate missing and disappeared Indigenous chi
ldren.Kimberly Murray, Canada's special interlocutor on unmarked graves, released her final report Tuesday in Gatineau, Que., during a gathering with Indigenous residential school survivors and experts from across the country.
"It fulfils a highly personal, yet universal human need to know what happened to deceased loved ones and to mourn, bury and memorialize them according to the laws, spiritual beliefs and practices of one's own culture." "It's so traumatizing for survivors to say that residential schools were good things, that no bad things happened there," Murray said in an interview.
The two-volume report lists 42"obligations" for governments, churches and other institutions to achieve truth, accountability, justice and reconciliation. Murray also said the federal government should criminalize residential school denialism, or the twisting, misrepresenting and distorting of basic facts about residential schools to shake public confidence in the stories of survivors, as defined by historian Sean Carleton.
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