House passes historic vote requesting Pope Francis apologize for residential school system after cross-party support on NDP motion

NDP MP Charlie Angus, who introduced the motion along with NDP MP Romeo Saganash, says the House vote is an 'overwhelming show of solidarity from every part of the country, from all political stripes asking the Pope to do the right thing. This is certainly unprecedented.'

NDP MP Charlie Angus, flanked by Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler, of the Nishnawbe Aski First Nation, and Kim Jonathon, first vice-chief of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan, pictured on May 1 speaking to reporters prior to Question Period.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY JOLSON LIM

May 1, 2018

PARLIAMENT HILL—In a historic move on Tuesday after Question Period, the House voted to invite Pope Francis to apologize for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada’s residential schools when 269 MPs voted in favour of the motion and 10 Conservative MPs voted ...

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