Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are the core activities of the centre, and then there are the additional activities of the centre. By the middle of this year we are going to have in place the core staff that we need. It is essential that we have attracted quality staff, and we are just filling in the last

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We are very fortunate right now, in the sense that the majority of the circle are indigenous people. We have a mixed blend of survivors, intergenerational survivors, and day-school survivors, which is critical in this whole conversation. This was again a national call for submis

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  There are certainly some parallels down in Australia. They had a process that ran there. Of course, they're a colonial society, a member of the Commonwealth wrestling with a number of the same issues that we wrestle with here in this country. They had a council for reconciliatio

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, sorry, but that's the scenario we're looking at.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. That's a great question. That is one of the truly great gifts that we have in being located in Winnipeg. We have some fantastic organizations there, such as the museum. We enjoy a very close and healthy working relationship with the museum. We've collaborated on a num

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Up to this point, our funding has come from four primary revenue streams. We had some surplus funds from the TRC, but of course that has dried up, because the TRC has now disappeared. We have some core funding from the University of Manitoba, and I really have to acknowledge the

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  They are not redacted.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's correct. We do have unredacted versions. All of the document production that happened for the TRC was in unredacted form, which truthfully, places a lot of responsibility on us, again, to manage that highly sensitive personal information. We needed unredacted documents so

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The issue that's in front of the courts right now has narrowed the question around IAP document preservation for the purposes of the historical record to three general categories of records: survivor statements/transcripts, applications, and then adjudicators' decisions. There ar

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It should not be...under this decision.... That should be a different sort of line of preservation, and should fall under standard government record-keeping process and procedure.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We have not received updated school narratives in recent production, no.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I think that is a fundamental question. One, we have to think about things just in the basic public interest. The IAP process has been a massive disbursement of public funds, and it has been a massive process of justice and alternate dispute resolution that's happened in this cou

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Our current centre is a beautiful space. It's about 8,600 square feet. It's an old home. We see ourselves growing out of it quite soon, and we have an active fundraising campaign that has already been launched, through the University of Manitoba's front and centre campaign, to bu

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We've constantly been in the challenging position that we only really know what we've received, and we only really know what we've been allowed to see. We have received a fairly significant production of materials related to the OPP investigations. Off the top of my head, and thi

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's a critical question. Without a doubt, this is a concern I share. One of my efforts as the director of the centre is to create as much stability for the centre as humanly possible. This concern was directly addressed in the trust agreement, the administrative agreement t