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Residential-school records may not arrive in time for aboriginal commission’s final report, director says
Mark Kennedy
Published: April 22, 2014
OTTAWA — The federal government, after months of delay, is hiring a firm to sort through millions of documents at Library and Archives Canada so they can be passed on to the commission probing the aboriginal residential school saga.
But concerns are already being raised from that group, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Its executive director, Kimberly Murray, said Tuesday she is worried the records will trickle in and arrive too late to be used for the commission’s report.
That multi-volume report is now being written and will be released by June 2015 but must be finished months before then so it can be translated and edited.
“They know we have to do all that,” a frustrated Murray said of the government. “They know it takes a year to do all that.”
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