It was just last month that Kimberly Murray, the federal point person for missing children and unmarked graves, made the recommendation that there needs to be long-term, sustainable funding from the federal government in the search of former residential school sites. But it already seems that Murray\u2019s recommendations are being ignored, with Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) last week quietly making devastating funding cuts to the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, which those in the field say could have immense impacts on their searches for unmarked graves. \u201cThis is just par for the course with CIRNAC. They don\u2019t talk to communities, they don\u2019t talk to the people they need to talk to. I wonder if they even read my interim report,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThey were certainly… <\/p>\n
It was just last month that Kimberly Murray, the federal point person for missing children and unmarked graves, made the recommendation that there needs to be long-term, sustainable funding from the federal government in the search of former residential school sites. But it already seems that Murray\u2019s recommendations are being ignored, with Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) last week quietly making devastating funding cuts to the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, which those in the field say could have immense impacts on their searches for unmarked graves. \u201cThis is just par for the course with CIRNAC. They don\u2019t talk to communities, they don\u2019t talk to the people they need to talk to. I wonder if they even read my interim report,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThey were certainly... <\/p>\n