I think for the record—and I know it's in your report—you talk about this 20 kilometres of documents, which represents some 69,000 boxes. According to this report, it could cost $40 million to digitize and safeguard these. There is a considerable amount of money being spent on this project.
Indeed I would argue the government's made considerable progress implementing the various components of the settlement agreement to date. We see that 97% of eligible recipients of the common experience payments have been paid. Almost $2 billion has been paid out to over 18,000 claimants through the independent assessment process. Important commemoration projects are taking place across the country. In addition Canada has gone further, through various gestures of reconciliation, including the Prime Minister's historic apology.
While we recognize that the provision of these documents to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission is important so that future generations will have access to them, we do not agree that Canada has indeed made considerable progress towards achieving a fair, comprehensive, and lasting resolution of the legacy of residential schools.