In 2021, the federal government launched a new fund with a very dull name. It’s the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund.
The fund is to help Indigenous communities find the bodies of children who never made it home from residential schools.
Yes, that’s right. The program to help Indigenous people locate the bodies of their dead relatives is called a “community support” fund.
Do Indigenous communities need support? Absolutely yes.
But to call this fund “community support” is insulting. It’s bland Canadian speak to make us all feel better about the crime against Indigenous people. It’s the biggest, most widespread crime in Canadian history.
And residential school sites are evidence of that crime.
To make matters worse, according to CBC, Indigenous communities have requested around $200 million from the fund. The requests are for things like ground-penetrating radar and commemorations for lost children.
And the federal government