17. We call upon all levels of government to enable residential school Survivors and their families to reclaim names changed by the residential school system by waiving administrative costs for a period of five years for the name-change process and the revision of official identity documents, such as birth certificates, passports, driver’s licenses, health cards, status cards, and social insurance numbers.
17. Residential school survivors and their families are allowed to regain their traditional names. Waving fees on the name change process and to give said individual’s revised official documents (i.e. birth certificates, passports, driver’s licenses, health cards, status cards, and social insurance numbers.)
Compiled by: Jeanine Morley