Indigenous groups say they are worried that many residential school survivors will not be able to attend Pope Francis’s appearances across Canada later this month, owing to ticket shortages and poor communication from the Catholic Church and the federal government.
About 60 per cent of Canada’s residential schools were run by the Catholic Church. The institutions – which operated for more than a century as part of what the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called a policy of cultural genocide against Indigenous people – were thrust to the forefront of public consciousness last year when several First Nations announced they had located possible unmarked graves on former school grounds.
The B.C. Assembly of First Nations told its regional chiefs and leadership in a letter dated July 11 that the CCCB had offered assurances that no survivors would be turned away from the Pope’s events. On Friday, the CCCB announced it was delaying the release of the final block of tickets for a papal mass at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium until July 22 to ensure more time for survivors to access their reserved tickets for the event, “in recognition of recent funding supports by the federal government.”
Mr. Picard said accessing federal funding has been difficult and that the best option for communities may be to self-fund and hope to be reimbursed by the government afterward.
The whole German population recognized that they all tolerated, collaborated and even wanted everything the Nazis did. The German population were not coward deniers like wee wee anglos doing in Canada.
who cares... ? what kind of sick person sends their kids to a 'church' like this... dead kids in unmarked graves? The Catholic Church is Canada's biggest serial killer
Oh well. Another screw up by a gaggle of incompetents. Who will they blame this time?
Are you kidding me ? This seem to be the common problem with indiginous people. They keep asking for things without planning. They bully the Pope to come and they need money and seating. They have recieved billions of dollars from Canada and yet they don't have housing or water.
Maybe a grassy knoll
Maybe don't encourage the institution that destroyed your culture.
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