An organization that works to document what happened at a notorious residential school says it’s at risk of going bankrupt by the end of the month unless Canada makes a decision on whether it will fund the group’s work.
The Survivors’ Secretariat, which works to uncover the truth about what happened at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school that operated in Brantford, Ont., also says the ministry of Crown-Indigenous relations is letting down survivors with the delays in processing its applications.
“I have to go tell (survivors) that Canada made a promise, and once again, they broke that promise,” said Laura Arndt, the secretariat’s lead.
“Every time survivors ask me for answers to all these (funding) questions, all I can say is, ‘I don’t know,’ because they don’t return my phone calls.
Arndt said the …