Quebec’s Indigenous Affairs Minister says the province is open to searching the grounds of former residential schools for graves if survivors and their families are in favour.
Ian Lafreniere says his office has started reaching out to families, Indigenous leaders, and his federal counterpart to discuss the possibility.
The discovery of the remains of 215 children on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia has prompted a fresh wave of scrutiny of the treatment of Indigenous people across Canada, and Lafreniere says Quebec must confront its own role in that history.
Quebec open to searching residential school sites for possible graves
The Canadian Press
