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Sixty-six percent of survey respondents say the church is responsible for the tragedies that took place at residential schools in Canada, while 34 percent of respondents say the federal government should be blamed.
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Maan Alhmidi
Kamloops Indian Residential School, circa 1930. Photo courtesy of COURTESY ARCHIVES DESCHTELETS-NDC, RICHELIEU Content of the article
OTTAWA New poll suggests two-thirds of Canadians believe churches that run residential schools should bear responsibility for child abuse, including deaths, that occurred there.
Leger and the Association for Canadian Studies online survey was conducted about a week after the Tkemlups te Secwepec First Nation said ground-penetrating radar detected what are believed to be the remains than 215 children in a former Kamloops residential school.
For more than a century, some 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children have been forcibly sent to government-funded and Church-run schools, where many have been abused and even killed.
Sixty-six percent of survey respondents say the church is responsible for the tragedies that took place at residential schools in Canada, while 34 percent of respondents say the federal government should be blamed.
The online survey of 1,539 Canadian adults was conducted June 4-6 and cannot be given a margin of error as Internet surveys are not considered random.
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Léger’s vice-president Andrew Enns said the fact that a majority of Canadians blame the church for what happened in residential schools comes as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on the Catholic Church to take responsibility for their role in Canada’s residential school system.
In some ways, I think the prime minister may have been encouraging the church to do a little better on this file, Enns said.
The Catholic Church operated the Kamloops Indian Residential School from 1890 to 1969. The Catholic Church ran the majority of residential schools in Canada, while others were run by the Anglican and United Church of Canada. The Catholic Church as a whole has never offered a formal apology for its role.
Trudeau said on Friday that as a Catholic he was deeply disappointed with the church’s stance and urged it to publish records on schools and noted that he had personally asked Pope Francis to ‘consider an apology during his 2017 visit to the Vatican.
The poll also found that 80 percent of respondents say what was found in Kamloops is just the tip of the iceberg and the same number who said Canadians should be ashamed of the residential schools, which were funded by the federal government, never existed.
Seventy-seven of the respondents say the government should order that all land surrounding former residential schools in Canada be systematically searched to see if what happened in Kamloops has also happened in other places.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated the residential school system and its legacy, detailed in its nearly 4,000-page report the mistreatment, including emotional, physical and sexual abuse, inflicted on First Nations, Métis children. and Inuit who were forced to attend schools far from their families and communities. Ongoing research by the National Center for Truth and Reconciliation shows that at least 4,100 people have died in schools through neglect.
Enns said Canadians expect the discovery of other burial sites like the one recently discovered in Kamloops.
This is a question that will be with us for some time and especially if we start to make new discoveries, he said. Obviously, the government will have to take action to begin with, to really research some of these other potential unmarked burial sites across the country.
Fifty-seven percent of survey respondents agreed that the discovery of the unmarked burial site in Kamloops and the potential for others like it has caused them to question the entire moral foundation on which Canada is based. .
My take is that I found that number still quite high, Enns said. What does this mean for Canada? What does it mean to be Canadian? I think there is the cause of this cause for some thinking, and at 57 percent, it is not an insignificant amount of the population.
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This story was produced with the financial assistance of Facebook and the Canadian Press News Fellowship.
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