The federal government is giving millions of dollars promised to Indigenous communities in the 2019 budget, to implement recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission having to do with burial information and missing children. David Akin explains why it took Ottawa over two years to release the remaining $27 million, and whether it’s enough.
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