Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said that the Catholic Church must take responsibility for its role in running many of Canada's residential schools for indigenous children.
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The discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school in Canada has reopened wounds for survivors of the system, they said, as the government pledged to spend previously promised money to search for more unmarked graves.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits the makeshift memorial erected in honour of the 215 indigenous children remains found at a boarding school in British Columbia.
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The Tk emlúps te Secwépemc indigenous nation in British Columbia announced last week it had found the remains of 215 children, some as young as three, buried at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, once Canada s largest such schools.