Reconciliation
Museums & Archives
69. We call upon Library and Archives Canada to:
i. Fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles, as related to Aboriginal peoples’ inalienable right to know the truth about what happened and why, with regard to human rights violations committed against them in the residential schools.
ii. Ensure that its record holdings related to residential schools are accessible to the public.
iii. Commit more resources to its public education materials and programming on residential schools.
The Joinet-Orentlicher Principles are a set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights, one of these rights being for people who have been subjected to human rights violations to have access to the truth behind these violations (ie The Right to Know).
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has not yet formally released a statement regarding adopting and implementing UNDRIP, but has signed an agreement confirming the preservation and public access to records of residential schools. However, some of these records are still classified as restricted, making access to these documents rather complicated.
The LAC website does have a page dedicated to the history and legacy of residential schools.
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