WelCom October 2021
Canada’s Catholic bishops have expressed their ‘profound remorse’ for the treatment of Canada’s indigenous population at the network of resident schools the Church ran across the country. Their move came months after the discovery of more than 1000 unmarked graces at the sites of three schools the Church operated as part of Canada’s forced assimilation programme. ‘We acknowledge the suffering experienced in Canada’s Indian residential schools,’ the bishops said following a plenary meeting in Cornwall, Ontario.