Residential school records needed to answer ‘hard questions’: special interlocutor 
Residential school records needed to answer ‘hard questions’: special interlocutor 

By Brenna Owen THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER- The woman appointed to work with Indigenous communities as they search for unmarked graves around former residential schools says additional records must be shared in order to answer “hard questions,” including who the missing children were, how they died and where they are buried. Without records of the genocide of Indigenous Peoples, special interlocutor Kimberly Murray says “deniers will continue to deny” and future generations could be led to forget. Murray told a national gathering on unmarked burials in Vancouver that survivors have a “right to know,” and that right is not only individual, but collective, so they can “draw on the past to prevent future violations.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said his government is committed to sharing all the information it can

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