Join UFCW Canada to support First Nations children's rights
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Toronto – June 4, 2015 – On June 11, 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood up in the House of Commons and apologized for Canada's notorious residential schools system. The system removed young Aboriginal children from their families and sent them to schools often far from their communities — to strip them of their heritage in an attempt to assimilate them into the dominant culture.