Organizations which have yet to disclose residential school documents will be put before a Senate committee to explain why as early as this fall.
That commitment is one of six recommendations made in a newly released report by the Standing Senate Committee on Indigenous Peoples.
Titled Honouring the Children Who Never Came Home, the interim report looks into the work of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
It notes that, despite commitments to do so, many records have not been released to the Centre, and a timeline for their release is unknown.
Records are held by numerous organizations and government bodies, with a list of those who promised to hand them over included in the report.
In addition to having those organizations answer to the Senate, the report makes another five recommendations.
They centre around expediting the transfer of records, providing funding, and using education to combat residential school denialism.
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