Canadian PM apologizes for residential schools


	Canadian PM apologizes for residential schools
thekay
6-12-2008 1:23 AM
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                                        Prime minister apologizes to native Canadians                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_ca/canada_indian_apology"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/E0368EFC-F566-4735-8E06-B9A2AADB4B02" alt="Assembly of First Nations Chief Phil Fontaine,right, wearing headdress, watches as Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, officially apologizes to native Canadians who were taken from their families and forced to attend state-funded schools aimed at assimilating them,  at a ceremony in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa,  Wednesday,  June 11, 2008. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Tom Hanson)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_ca/canada_indian_apology"><P>
                        OTTAWA - In a historic speech, <SPAN id="lw_1213231227_0" class="yshortcuts">Prime Minister Stephen Harper</SPAN> apologized Wednesday to <SPAN id="lw_1213231227_1" class="yshortcuts">Canada</SPAN>'s native peoples for the longtime government policy of forcing their children to attend state-funded schools aimed at assimilating them.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_ca/canada_indian_apology"><P>The treatment of children at the schools where they were often physically and sexually abused was a sad chapter in the country's history, he said from the House of Commons in an address carried live across Canada.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_ca/canada_indian_apology"><P>From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 Indian children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_ca/canada_indian_apology"><P>"The <SPAN id="lw_1213231227_2" class="yshortcuts">government of Canada</SPAN> now recognizes that it was wrong to forcibly remove children from their homes and we apologize," Harper said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_ca/canada_indian_apology"><P>Harper also apologized for failing to prevent the children from being physically and sexually abused at the schools.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080611/ap_on_re_ca/canada_indian_apology">legacy of abuse and isolation</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FA5305C0-D3E3-45B8-B913-14578B3D3702/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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