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Thread #141488   Message #3256766
Posted By: Beer
14-Nov-11 - 09:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Canada - The 60s Scoop-Stolen Children
Subject: RE: BS: Canada - The 60s Scoop-Stolen Children
"The video I posted there was about the terrible damage done by the Catholic Church...the Genocide which still rages today..."

Lizzie, just want to say that the Canadian government did take a first step in apologizing to the first nations in 2008. Mentioned below.


Copied from Gary's web site

Gary Fjellgaard's Single "I Apologize"

"I Apologize" is dedicated to the First Nation�s victims and survivors of the cultural genocide which occurred in Canada for over a century. No apology can heal the wounds caused by the far reaching effects of the residential school system. I can only add my voice as a member of the generation who allowed this abuse to take place".

http://youtu.be/vpXGOxOHuUU

Gary told me that the "First nation" asked his permission if they could use his song as their healing song. A great honor to Gary.


Taken from Wikipidia: On June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized, on behalf of the sitting Cabinet, in front of an audience of Aboriginal delegates, and in an address that was broadcast nationally on the CBC, for the past governments' policies of assimilation.[24] The Prime Minister apologized not only for the known excesses of the residential school system, but for the creation of the system itself.


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