Posted AT 8:45 PM EDT on 01/05/07
House apologizes to residential school survivors
OTTAWA — The House of Commons apologized unanimously yesterday to former students of Canada's Indian Residential Schools, but the federal government wants at least five more years before issuing its own apology.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservative MPs voted in favour yesterday of a Liberal motion that the House apologize to the survivors of the boarding schools, which Ottawa supported for over a century starting in the 1870s.
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