Missing children and unmarked burials : Enfants disparus et lieux de sépulture non marqués

Will the Prime Minister commit to the repatriation of the bodies and an apology to the residential school survivors?14 James Prentice, who was both the minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development as well as the minister responsible for the Office of Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada, responded, “We will get to the bottom of the disappeared children. [...] However, an inquiry was not to be delayed for more than seven- ty-two hours to accommodate parents, an extreme limitation, considering the rela- tive isolation of many of the residential schools and the limited communications of the day.23 The department was not prepared to pay parents’ transportation costs to attend the inquiry.24 The policy was not always adhered to, and, in some cases, the Indi [...] Because enrolment was increasing in the early twentieth century, the increase in the death rate in the 1920s was not as steep as the increase in the total number of deaths for the same period. [...] After 1969, the governments of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon were responsible for the operation of the residences and schools in their respective jurisdictions. [...] The principal was also responsible for: (a) the maintenance and operation of the school buildings, grounds and equipment; (b) the assignment of duties to the staff and the supervision of the perfor- mance thereof; (c) the preparation and dissemination of rules relating to the functioning of the school; (d) the provision and supervision of measures to ensure the health, safety, welfare and educatio