ACQL mourns the loss of the 215 children whose remains were recently discovered in a mass grave at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, as well as countless more who perished in residential schools across the country as part of Canada’s program of genocide against Indigenous peoples. Moreover, we acknowledge that the harms of the residential school system are ongoing. We call upon the Government of Canada to fully and immediately fund the implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action numbers 71 through 76 regarding missing children and burial information at residential schools across Canada. ACQL has made a donation in honour of all of the victims of the residential school system to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
