Why Is Nothing Being Done About the Claim That Children Were Murdered in Canada’s Residential Schools?

The Canadian flag flies at half-mast in recognition of residential school students, on the West Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 2, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

Commentary

Over the last two years, innumerable news reports have been published about missing children and mass or unmarked graves at Indian Residential Schools (IRS) from across Canada. First, the news that the graves of 215 students were discovered at the Kamloops Indian Residential School at the end of May 2021 was shocking, to say the least. (Even I was shocked and I lived and worked in two residential schools.)