CANADA
Ottawa Citizen
BY BOB WEBER, THE CANADIAN PRESS JULY 18, 2013
The head of Canada’s largest aboriginal group says Prime Minister Stephen Harper must acknowledge the “horrors” of nutritional experiments once done on hungry children by increasing support for native child welfare.
Shawn Atleo of the Assembly of First Nations said research, which showed that at least 1,300 alreadyhungry children and adults were part of the experiments, was driving an emergency resolution at the organization’s annual meeting in Whitehorse, Yukon, on Wednesday.
“We’re going to call on the prime minister to give effect to the words that he spoke when he said: ‘The burden of this experience has been on your shoulders for far too long. The burden is properly ours as a government,”‘ Atleo said in reference to Harper’s 2008 apology for residential schools.
A paper by University of Guelph food historian Ian Mosby detailed tests conducted between 1942 and 1952 on northern Manitoba reserves and at six residential schools across the country.
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