CANADA
Global News
By Steve Rennie The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – After nearly four years of public hearings and with the clock ticking on a final report into the legacy of physical and sexual abuse at Indian residential schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is about to get a pile of new documents.
The development comes more than a year after an Ontario court ordered the federal government to hand over reams of material to the commission.
The inquiry was supposed to end in July, but its mandate has been has been extended by a year.
Even with the extra time, researchers are still under the gun to sort through the latest additions to the millions of documents the government has already provided. Early estimates have tens of thousands of boxes sitting in storage at four different Library and Archives Canada locations.
“Preliminary estimates identify up to 60,000 boxes of material … requiring review,” says a procurement notice.
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