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On Wednesday June 11, 2008, the Prime Minister of Canada, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, made a Statement of Apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools, on behalf of the Government of Canada.
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Though the last residential schoolin Canada closed in 1996, the system had been in decline since the 1970s. As a result of the growing willingness of survivors to speak publicly about their suffering and to press for reparation, many churches and other organizations issued formal apologies for their involvement in the residential school system. The...
After continued pressure from Indigenous communities for acknowledgement and compensation, the comprehensive Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) was agreed to in 2005 by the Liberal government, churches, the Assembly of First Nations and plaintiffs. It was ratified in 2006 by a new Conservativegovernment. After the IRSSA came in...
After Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivered the apology in the House of Commons on 11 June 2008, opposition party leaders added their own remarks. The apology was received by Phil Fontaine, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations; Patrick Brazeau, national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples; Mary Simon, president of Inuit Tapirii...
11 June 2008 House of Commons, Ottawa Right Hon. Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, CPC) I stand before you today to offer an apology to former students of Indian residential schools. The treatment of children in these schools is a sad chapter in our history. For more than a century, Indian residential schools separated over 150,000 aboriginal childre...
Jun 11, 2008 · Here are excerpts from the text of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's statement of apology on Wednesday, as released by the Prime Minister's Office.
Jun 11, 2008 · Stephen Harper stood in the House of Commons on Wednesday to say sorry to former students of native residential schools — in the first formal apology from a Canadian prime minister over the...
Jul 28, 2020 · As part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, a Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established. Before its work got under way, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a public apology on June 11, 2008, on behalf of the Canadian government.
Jun 25, 2018 · In the House of Commons, Prime Minster Stephen Harper delivers an apology to residential school survivors and all Indigenous people. Indigenous leaders, survivors witness speech on the floor...
