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KRISTY KIRKUP | QMI AGENCY
OTTAWA — The courts can decide if documents related to Canada’s residential schools can be released for a commission probing the dark legacy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper signalled Wednesday.
In recent documents filed to the Ontario Superior Court, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) suggested Ottawa was hampering the retrieval of documents related to its mandate.
After the government’s historic residential school apology in the House of Commons in June 2008, the TRC was mandated to learn about the government assimilation program that lasted 130 years.
Sexual abuse was commonplace in residential schools.
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