Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says he is open to the recommendations in a new report that proposes civil and criminal sanctions against Canadians who engage in residential-school denialism.
Lametti was responding to an interim report by his appointee, Kimberly Murray, a member of the Kahnesatake Mohawk Nation in Quebec, who was tasked in June 2022 to identify measures including legal ones to address what the government said were unmarked graves and burial sites of children at former Indian residential schools.
“Sacred Responsibility: Searching for the Missing Children and Unmarked Burials” was released on June 16 in Saskatchewan, at the Cowessess First Nation’s Marieval Survivors Gathering, according to a news release….