Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani, left, receives a report by Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools during a national gathering in Gatineau, Que., Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024.
Kimberly Murray says she's received no word from Canada a month after she hand-delivered her two-volume final report in Gatineau, Que., finding that children who died and were buried at Indian residential schools were victims of a crime against humanity.Justice Minister Arif Virani, left, receives the final report from special interlocutor Kimberly Murray on Oct. 29, during a ceremony in Gatineau, Que.
"I'm really concerned about this," Arnot said, "because most of the things that you reported on require an accountability and a holding of the executive branch of government to account."on June 13, meaning it ends in December, so time is running out if she is to receive Canada's response while still in her post.
In an email to CBC Indigenous on Friday, Virani's office thanked Murray for her work but didn't say when she could expect a response. In her Senate testimony, Murray questioned Canada's commitment to finding the truth, pointing to federal restrictions that prevent using public money for certain types of investigations and a proposed funding cap on site searches that Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree"Canada has legal, international obligations to support communities to find the truth, and it seems with the cutting of the funding that they don't want the truth to be known.
"It just seems so, so unfair, frustrating and tiring," said McCallum, pausing as she fought through tears.Kimberly Murray, independent special interlocutor for missing children and unmarked burials associated with residential schools, delivers remarks on an Indigenous-led reparations framework during a national gathering in Gatineau, Que.
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