Madam Chair, first nations across our region and the country are grieving, reliving unspeakable trauma and they are angry. It is time for Canada and Canadians to accept the reality this is genocide, genocide against indigenous people. These were not schools. They were detention centres, they were torture chambers and now we know more about the mass graves, the mass murder.
First nations are demanding action. Pimicikamak Cree Nation has reached out to the Prime Minister, calling on the government to support the search of the grounds of the residential school imposed on them for decades. First nations are calling for searches, for support and for truth.
The minister talked to us about talking to our kids about residential schools. What about talking to our Prime Minister, talking to our ministers and hearing from them what they will do concretely to achieve justice and acknowledge this genocide done against indigenous peoples? What will they do to—