CANADA
Vancouver Sun
BY KIM PEMBERTON, VANCOUVER SUN JULY 18, 2013
There are “literally millions of documents” about the residential school system that Ottawa is just starting to make public and it’s not yet known if any more deal with controversial experiments on aboriginal children.
That’s the word from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada after reports Tuesday that malnourished aboriginal children in residential schools, including in Port Alberni, were subjected to nutritional experiments shortly after the Second World War.
“There needs to be a planned approach to find out more and to get to the bottom of this,” Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs said Wednesday. “There’s a good chance other depraved acts in the name of science were taking place to other young children.”
The commission, which is charged with establishing the truth about sexual and physical abuse and loss of culture at residential schools, went to court in December to get access to documents held by Ottawa. The documents, mostly in digital files, have started to arrive, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
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