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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to throw churches under the bus for the worst excesses of residential schools, when the federal government is equally to blame.
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Now Trudeau says he would support a police investigation into the conduct of priests, nuns and church officials who ran the schools for nearly a century.
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What is missing from the P.M.’s comments – what is always missing when he discusses the recent discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at the old “Indian schools” – is the fact that the federal governments of the past were just as culpable for what went on.
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