Of the thousands of former students who detailed the abuses they suffered, only about 30 have sought to have copies of their words archived.
The records in question are the product of what was known as the Independent Assessment Process, the protocol survivors had to follow to access compensation for abuses they suffered as children.
Shingoose still recalls the questioning she received from the adjudicator and a federal government representative into details of the physical and sexual abuse she suffered at the Muscowequan Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, which she attended for nine years. On one side, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation — the archive established to house its records — along with the federal government, said they ought to be preserved. The chief adjudicator of the compensation process and 24 Catholic Church entities argued they should be destroyed.Article content
In the end, according to Fontaine’s affidavit, it was agreed the names of perpetrators would never be released and only survivors could access their own records. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ultimately ordered the records to be destroyed after giving survivors 15 years to seek copies of their own files. The decision was appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada, which upheld the order to see them destroyed by September 2027.Article content
But one area neither the courts nor the compensation process considered was the deaths and disappearances of children, says Murray, who now serves as an independent adviser to Ottawa on how to help Indigenous communities search for unmarked graves and retrieve records.
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