Métis leader calls for Queen to apologize for residential schools
The president of the Métis Nationwide Council says the Queen ought to apologize for residential faculties to assist survivors and their households heal.
The president of the Métis Nationwide Council says the Queen ought to apologize for residential faculties to assist survivors and their households heal.
Cassidy Caron says residential college survivors advised her that an apology from the Queen could be essential since she is the chief of the Anglican Church and Canada’s head of state.
Caron says she’s going to make the request to Prince Charles and his spouse, Camilla, throughout a reception with them at Rideau Corridor on Wednesday.
The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are to go to Canada this week for a three-day tour that’s to partially deal with Indigenous reconciliation.
Final month, Pope Francis apologized on the Vatican to survivors and Indigenous delegates for the Catholic Church’s function in residential faculties.
Some 150,000 Indigenous youngsters had been compelled to attend residential faculties; the Anglican Church ran about three dozen of them.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed Could 16, 2022.
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