Ottawa’s decision to contract work around the search for unmarked graves to an non\u002DIndigenous organization based in the Netherlands risks causing harm and…
Kimberly Murray, who was tapped last year to serve as an independent special interlocutor on the matter, says she raised concerns directly with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller on his department’s decision to spend $2 million to hire the International Commission on Missing Persons.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Murray said her concerns are based on having spoken to the international commission — which has yet to respond to a request for comment. But Murray said she is concerned with the lack of consultation done with Indigenous leadership before Ottawa inked the contract, which she believes must be released publicly.
The centre requested that the international group meet with its staff or residential school survivors prior to signing the agreement, but that didn’t happen, Scott added. “They’ve created Indigenous-led processes, but at the same time, it’s almost like they need a shadow report from a non-Indigenous entity for it to have any kind of credibility,” she said.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.In response to the concerns Murray is raising, a spokeswoman for Miller’s office said late Thursday that “agreements and documents will be shared when appropriate to do so, with input from all parties.
And in the past, northern Manitoba NDP MP Niki Ashton has called on the government to bring in international experts such as the missing persons commission to assist communities.Article content
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