Residential School Survivours Not Being Helped

It’s supposed to be a symbol of cooperation between the federal government and Canada’s aboriginal people, but it seems the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the department of Aboriginal Affairs can’t even agree on how to cooperate.
The 2013 Spring report from Auditor General Michael Ferguson found the $60-million commission and the department “have yet to agree on the work to be done” almost four years down the road.
The commission’s five-year mandate is to create a historical record of the residential school system and its legacy, which includes seven national events and a research centre.
And with little more than a year to go, the report calls into doubt whether the legacy of residential school survivors will be completed when the mandate, and the money, runs out in July 2014.
The Ferguson report indicates that the parties involved can’t agree on basic questions, including what documents are needed and what time period should be covered.
The report also points to a federal plan to deal with the rising raise of diabetes on First Nations reserves.
The federal public health agency says after seven years of thinking about how to deal with chronic disease, it still has no strategic plan.