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Formal Apology to Residential School
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a historic apology for more than a century of abuse and more...cultural loss involving Indian residential schools.
The Prime Minister acknowledged the government's role in removing and isolating children from their homes, families and culture.
Speaking in the House of Commons Harper acknowledged, "The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter of our history," "Some sought, as was infamously said, to kill the Indian in the child."
Harper continued, "This policy was wrong, caused great harm and has no place in our country,"
Residential school survivors from across Canada -- many wearing traditional clothing -- filled the House of Commons, which postponed other business for the day, to hear the Government of Canada's official apology, which began at 3 o'clock.
Close to 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and M?tis children were removed from their communities throughout most of the last century and forced to attend residential schools. less
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