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   CBC News · Posted: Aug 02, 2021   
      
   Sixties Scoop survivors call for federal inquiry and apology   
      
   Survivors' group, Murray Sinclair say more needed to uncover full number of   
   children taken   
      
   Former Canadian senator Murray Sinclair and a group representing survivors of   
   the Sixties Scoop are calling for a federal inquiry into the actions and   
   policies of governments that led to thousands of Indigenous children being   
   taken from their homes over    
   four decades and placed with non-Indigenous families.   
      
   "There have been studies on the Sixties Scoop, but we really haven't delved   
   into how far-reaching the effects really are," said Katherine Legrange,   
   volunteer co-ordinator with the 60s Scoop Legacy of Canada.   
      
   An inquiry is needed to get a full account of the number of children taken,   
   and the impacts on the lives of survivors and their families, said Legrange, a   
   plaintiff in one of the lawsuits involving survivors.   
      
   Sinclair, who chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, said many of   
   the challenges facing Indigenous families that led to the apprehension of   
   their children stemmed from the legacy of decades of the residential school   
   system.   
      
   "The children who were removed need to know they are not alone, but they also   
   need to know that there were reasons for what happened that were not of their   
   parents' making," he said in a release.   
      
   The group wants a meeting with federal Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn   
   Bennett to discuss an inquiry, as well as a national apology and a settlement   
   for Métis and non-status survivors who were excluded from a 2017 class-action   
   settlement.   
      
   Canada's settlement agreement set aside $750 million to compensate First   
   Nations and Inuit children who were removed from their homes and placed with   
   non-Indigenous foster or adoptive parents between 1951 and 1991, and ended up   
   losing their cultural    
   identities.   
      
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/sixties-scoop-survivors-   
   all-for-national-inquiry-1.6127154   
   _____________________________________   
      
      
   If you've had enough of inquiries, compensations, repeat demands for inquiries   
   and repeat demands for compensation, it's time you made your voice heard.   
      
   Email Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett and tell her NO MORE. The   
   7-year Truth & Reconciliation Commission, headed by, and staffed with   
   indigenous-only members, has looked into all these issues and convinced   
   Government to pay more than $3.5    
   Billion to the complainants as compensation with taxpayer monies. Enough.   
      
   CC the Prime Minister's office.   
      
   Honourable Carolyn Bennett   
   Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations   
   carolyn.bennett@parl.gc.ca   
      
   The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau   
   Prime Minister of Canada   
   justin.trudeau@parl.gc.ca   
      
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