Stephen Harper's Apology Of Residential School

In 2008, Prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper issued an apology statement from the government of Canada for residential schools and the damage they caused to the aboriginal people. In his apology, he recognized what the real purpose of residential school was, “ to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture”. Harper said that the government thought of Aboriginal people as inferior and unequal to them, thus they enforced a school system that forced children out of their home, their comfort zone, and their communities. Their main purpose was to kill the beautiful culture, tradition and communities of the Aboriginal people.

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