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Frank Deer, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba

Canada and churches have moral obligations for the reparations of missing and disappeared Indigenous children: Final Report

Independent Special Interlocutor Kimberly Murray has released her final report after two years of examining the issue of missing and disappeared Indigenous children and unmarked burials sites at residential schools in Canada.

During the ceremony last week in Gatineau, Que., Murray said governments do not often implement recommendations given on such reports. So she opted to identify 42 “legal, moral and ethical obligations” for governments, churches and other institutions. These are proposals on how to make holistic reparations to Indigenous Peoples.

Murray emphasized that the children were “victims of enforced disappearance.”

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