Ms. Amanda McCarthy at the Canadian Heritage Committee

On June 18th, 2021. See this statement in context.

June 18th, 2021 / 1:30 p.m.

Director, Settlement Agreement and Childhood Claims, Resolution and Partnerships, Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs

Amanda McCarthy

Thank you very much.

I'll try this with the video on, but I'll turn it off if I'm signalled that people can't hear me clearly.

The $27.1 million was announced in order to support the implementation of calls to action 74 to 76. It is accessible to indigenous organizations, communities and survivor organizations.

We are waiting to hear from indigenous voices on how best they would like us to proceed. The plan at this point is for Canada to be a facilitator of access to the support and the resources [Technical difficulty—Editor] obstacles to providing that support and listening to them on how they would like to proceed.

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