Item - 2021.MM34.42

City Council on June 8 and 9, 2021, adopted the following:

1.  City Council request the Federal and Provincial Governments to support Call to Action 82 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and specifically to help provide capital funding to the construction of Indian Residential School Survivors Restoration of Identity Project on Nathan Phillips Square.

 
2.  City Council request the Federal and Provincial Governments to take action now on Calls 71 to 76 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada to address missing children and burial information, including funding and co-ordinating support to locate and protect school burial sites, both known and unknown.

 
3.  City Council call on the Federal Government to drop the Federal Court appeals related to compensation for First Nations children separated from their families.

 
4.  City Council request the Director, Indigenous Affairs Office, in consultation with relevant staff, to report to the Aboriginal Affairs Advisory Committee and the Executive Committee on what further actions are needed to advance truth, reconciliation and justice, how the City will hold itself accountable to community in advancing these actions, and whether additional resources and funding are required to further the City of Toronto’s work on reconciliation.