Senate committee hears from information commissioner on residential schools records access

February 29, 2024

A Senate committee examining barriers to the release of records of deaths at residential schools heard Tuesday that federal departments and agencies should make information disclosure processes more accessible and informal. “We heard that the privacy and information regimes cannot work if the government itself does not believe in them,” said Sen. Brian Francis, chair of the standing committee on Indigenous Peoples, who is from Lennox Island First Nation on P.E.I. “And what is needed is leaders committed to openness and transparency…