The federal government under former prime minister Stephen Harper apologized to survivors in 2008. In 2021, the announcement by the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc, a First Nation in British Columbia, that ground-penetrating radar that discovered 215 possible unmarked graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, shone a further spotlight on the children who died while attending this institutions, leading to a national outcry.