‘I stand before you today to offer an apology to former students of Indian residential schools’

For more than a century, Indian residential schools separated over 150,000 aboriginal children from their families and communities.

The following is Prime Minister Stephen Harper's apology in the House on June 11 to the former students of Canada's Indian residential schools. It was edited to fit the page.

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