A total of $27 million is being made available to communities to help locate children who died at residential schools in Canada.
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett said yesterday that First Nations will get information about how to access the funding by the end of the day and promised it will be distributed on “an urgent basis”.
There have been several calls for the federal government to fund the research and excavation of all sites of former residential schools for unmarked graves, after the remains of 215 children were found buried at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School last week.
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