The federal government is backtracking on a move to limit funding for searches of former residential school grounds.

Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the government has heard concerns from Indigenous leaders and communities SA国际影视传媒渓oud and clear.SA国际影视传媒�

Communities could previously receive up to $3 million per year through the Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund, but the government had moved to cap funding at $500,000.

Anandasangaree says in a statement the government will now lift that cap and remove planned restrictions on the funding, which goes toward locating burial sites at former residential schools and identifying children who never returned.

He says the governmentSA国际影视传媒檚 intention was to fund as many initiatives as possible but it made a mistake in not being flexible enough.

That fund was created in the wake of TkSA国际影视传媒檈mlups te Secwepemc First NationSA国际影视传媒檚 report in 2021 about 215 anomalies found on the grounds of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

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