CANADA
CBC News
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada is heading into the federal government’s archives Tuesday to gather more of the 3.5 million documents related to residential schools.
At first, the federal government refused to give the TRC access to all federal residential school documents, but in January, a judge ordered the government to hand over all relevant documents.
“We want to know the truth,” said Terri Brown, a member of the Tahltan First Nation and a survivor from a residential school sytem in Whitehorse.
“We were really like little robots doing what people told us to do. We didn’t have a choice. And whatever was conducted in there, whatever happened, as painful as it may be, we need to know that information because it can help us in the future.”
The federal government has given the TRC $400,000 to pay a small team to dig through photographs and documents from Health Canada. But those are just a portion of the close to 3.5 million federal archive documents now accessible to the TRC.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.