Ashley Monture
Survivors' Secretariat
Researcher with the Survivors' Secretariat, which is searching the grounds of the former Mohawk Institute in Brantford.
Connected Scandals
Ontario's Support for Indian Residential School Burial Sites fund is dropping from roughly $32 million a year to $20 million, according to a researcher with the Survivors' Secretariat. The Ford government has separately refused to release an audit of the same program.
Of the Survivors' Secretariat; revealed that Ontario's Support for Indian Residential School Burial Sites fund drops to $20 million this year from the $31–32 million it received in each of the past three fiscal years, a cut disclosed in a meeting with Ministry of Indigenous Affairs staff. She warned "there will be no survivors' gatherings... further staffing reductions... difficult decisions about what parts of the search can continue and at what pace."