Mr. Speaker, when the Minister for Crown-Indigenous Relations was asked why it took two years to release $27 million in previously announced funding to uncover what were believed to be thousands of indigenous children buried in unmarked graves at residential schools across the country, the minister said that the communities were not ready. Truth and reconciliation chair, Murray Sinclair, pointed out that even with limited research, they found several burial sites, yet “nothing has been done by the government to follow that up.”
Why has the money not been made available until now?