Summary:
The federal government has provided funding to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation for work on this Student Death Register.
The Call to Action:
We call upon the federal government to allocate sufficient resources to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation to allow it to develop and maintain the National Residential School Student Death Register established by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Analysis:
In the 2019 budget, the federal government had committed $33.8 million over three years, starting in 2019–20, to maintain the National Residential School Student Death Register, establish and maintain an online registry of residential school cemeteries and provide opportunities for commemoration.
In March 2018, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) received funding from Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada to support the implementation of the National Residential School Student Death Register.
As of October 2018, the NCTR was planning a series of community visits for residential school survivors, intergenerational survivors, families and Indigenous communities to have input into the project’s design.