TORONTO – On June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a landmark formal apology to former students of Indian Residential Schools.
In the apology issued in the House of Commons Harper said the Canadian government “now recognizes that the consequences of the Indian Residential Schools policy were profoundly negative and that this policy has had a lasting and damaging impact on Aboriginal culture, heritage and language.”
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Read the full apology below:
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