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Terry Teegee, regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, says it's time for the federal government to cut through "the bureaucratic red tape" that makes it difficult for Indigenous communities to find out what happened to their children who went missing in Canada's residential school system.
Minister of Indigenous Relations, Rick Wilson, said in a statement Monday that the government intends to fund research "into the undocumented deaths and burials of hundreds of Indigenous children who did not make their way home."
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his government will take further actions in response to the discovery of the remains of 215 children in a former residential school in Kamloops city.Amid calls for accountability and to go beyond .
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged support for indigenous communities after the remains of 215 indigenous children were discovered at an old boarding school.