This article contains references to child abuse.
Canada s Indigenous services minister said Wednesday it is shameful that the Pope has never formally apologised for abuses at the country s Catholic-run Indigenous residential schools, which he termed labour camps.
Marc Miller s comments followed the recent discovery of unmarked graves of 215 children in Kamloops at one of 139 boarding schools set up a century ago to forcibly assimilate Canada s Indigenous peoples. I do, I do, the minister told a news conference when asked if he supports growing Indigenous calls for a papal apology that date back to a 2015 truth and reconciliation commission report, and before.