Chair, 8 members exit roles in committee examining residential school documents

October 10, 2024

The chairperson and eight members of a committee formed to be in charge of efforts to examine and share historical documents about residential schools in Canada have all exited their roles, saying the federal government didn’t provide sufficient funding to fulfil their mandate. Cadmus Delorme, who was the chair, resigned from the Residential School Documents Advisory Committee in July, along with eight other members. Delorme said he made the decision after repeated requests for adequate funding from Ottawa were left unheeded…