Mr. Speaker, the response is as follows:
a) The government has received over 8,000 requests to have over 1,200 unique institutions added to the Indian residential schools settlement agreement.
i) and ii) The names of these requested institutions, as well as their locations, can be found on the public list of decisions on the settlement agreement website: http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca/Decisions.pdf
iii)and iv) Requested institutions are not researched in detail once they have been determined to be ineligible. Therefore, the information that the Government of Canada holds on these institutions is minimal.
b) The government does not have access to the information for these non-federal institutions as other parties controlled them.
c) The Government of Canada has publicly committed to working with the provinces to further address the wrongs of the residential schools era. The Government of Canada has also signed the Métis nation protocol which seeks to establish a structured process to conduct discussions with the Métis National Council on a range of issues including Métis former students of the residential school system.