Global News published this video item, entitled “Canada announces survivors, families of residential school victims to reclaim names | FULL” – below is their description.
The Canadian federal government has responded to a Call to Action 17 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which will allow Residential School survivors and their families to reclaim their names on their passports and other travel documents.
Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marco Mendicino and Minister of Indigenous Services Marc Miller made the announcement on Monday morning.
Call to Action 17 – “to enable residential school survivors and their families to reclaim names changed by the residential school system by waiving administrative costs for a period of five years for the name-change process and the revision of official identity documents, such as birth certificates, passports, driver’s licenses, health cards, status cards, and social insurance numbers.”
The announcement comes following the discovery of 215 sets of remains at the site of a former Indigenous residential school in Kamloops, B.C. in late May.
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