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6 October, 2007

To whom it may concern,

This is to alert you to an overt cover-up of the mass murder and burial of thousands of Indian residential school children in Canada that is underway as you read this.

In a letter written a few days ago, and reproduced below, newly-appointed Minister of Indian Affairs Chuck Strahl declared that an "ad Hoc Working Group on Missing Children and Unmarked Burials has been formed" which includes the very organizations responsible for these missing children and burials: the government and churches of Canada!

This announcement is a startling and sudden reversal of the previous position of the Canadian government, which, along with the Catholic, Anglican and United churches, denied any knowledge of the deaths and burials of these children, and stated time and again that their so-called "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" under Bob Watts would have no mandate to investigate the deaths of children in the residential schools.

Not only is such a self-investigation by parties involved in the deaths and burial of residential school children completely inappropriate and self-serving, but it constitutes a grave miscarriage of justice.

In the light of this dubious step by the very parties which have a vested interest in concealing their complicity in these deaths and burials, some hard, public questions need to be made to Minister Strahl and his so-called "Ad Hoc Working Group on Missing Children and Unmarked Burials", namely:

1. How will such a body, run by the government and churches of Canada along with state-funded native groups, be able to conduct a fair, thorough and objective search for missing children and unmarked graves when such a search may criminally implicate the same organizations in the deaths of these children?

2. Will the actions and findings of this Ad Hoc Working Group be open to the public and media?

3. What is the specific mandate and powers of this Ad Hoc group?

4. Upon what evidence is the Ad Hoc group basing its activities, and where is it undertaking the search for these missing children and graves?

5. Will this Ad Hoc group present all of the results of its investigation to the public and to the families of the children who died; will it undertake the repatriation of the remains of these children to their homes without conditions; and will it undertake a forensic analysis of these remains to determine an exact cause of death of the children?

6. Will the Ad Hoc group bring to trial those responsible for the deaths of these children, and their burial, or recommend steps towards the apprehension and prosecution of those responsible?

7. Will the Ad Hoc group open its work and findings to the inspection of the Parliament of Canada and to international human rights, media and indigenous organizations?

I urge all representatives of the media and others who receive this to publicly pose these questions to Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs, to Members of Parliament and the Prime Minister of Canada, and to the media and world at large.

In the face of this latest exercise in government and church duplicity, let us work as well to establish a truly genuine investigation of the missing residential school children and their buried location.

I invite your responses and involvement,

sincerely,

Kevin D. Annett / Eagle Strong Voice, M.A., M.Div.
Secretary, The Truth Commission into Genocide in Canada
260 Kennedy St.
Nanaimo, BC Canada V9R 2H8
website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org
250-753-3345 or 1-888-265-1007

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From: Minister@ainc-inac.gc.ca <Minister@ainc-inac.gc.ca>
Date: Oct 3, 2007 11:24 AM
Subject: Correspondence of September 2, 2007
3 2007
Oct
 
Mr. Wilfred Reimer
 
Dear Mr. Reimer:
 
As Minister responsible for Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada, I would like to thank you for your correspondence of September 2, 2007, expressing your concern about children who attended Indian Residential Schools and who went missing.
 
Firstly, I can assure you that I take this matter very seriously, as did my predecessor, Minister Jim Prentice.
 
I am pleased to inform you that pursuant to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, a process is currently underway to select three independent Commissioners who will lead the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and fulfill its mandate. I expect the selection process to be completed later this fall.
 
I am also pleased to inform you that under the leadership of the Interim Executive Director for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Mr. Bob Watts, an Ad Hoc Working Group on Missing Children and Unmarked Burials has been formed and some preliminary research and exploratory dialogue with all parties is already underway so that when the Commissioners are appointed, they will have some recommendations for their consideration . The Working Group is made up of representatives from the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit and Métis representatives, as well as representatives from the National Residential Schools Survivors Society, the Churches and Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada.
 
Once again, thank you for taking the time to write on this important matter.
 
Sincerely,
 
a signé l'original
 
 
Chuck Strahl, M.P.
Minister of Indian Affairs, Ottawa


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