e-3554 (Indigenous affairs)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Indigenous Peoples across Canada are mourning the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the sites of the former Kamloops, Kootenay, Kuper Island, Brandon and Marieval Indian Residential Schools;
- Indigenous communities believe that many children who never returned home from residential schools are buried on the former properties, which this discovery further solidifies and documents;
- Indigenous leaders believe that further unmarked graves exist, which can no longer be ignored;
- The residential school system is not only a dark chapter in Canadian history, but it continues to have repercussions on its victims, their descendants, and on society as a whole; and
- If only 1 out of 139 former residential school properties contained over 751 bodies, we can only begin to imagine how many thousands of Indigenous children are buried throughout all of Canada, and every child matters.
- Open for signature
- July 22, 2021, at 11:31 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- November 19, 2021, at 11:31 a.m. (EDT)