By Shari Narin Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Cadmus Delorme has been tasked with bringing the “worldviews” of the Canadian government and Indigenous survivors together when it comes to identifying and acquiring all relevant records for Indian residential schools. “No one’s opposing this,” said Delorme, chair of the Residential Schools Documents Advisory Committee since February. “There’s two worldviews here. There’s a government perspective where their duty of care is to protect the integrity of the government. And then there’s a duty of care for the truth, and that’s from living witnesses. So it is very good conversations.” Those conversations will continue next week when the documents advisory committee meets. In 2021, barely a month after Tk’emlups te Secwepemc announced 215 unmarked graves had been identified through ground penetrating radar at the former…
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