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By The Canadian Press | Jul 19, 2013
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt says the federal government’s 2008 apology to victims of residential schools includes children and adults who were subjected to nutritional experiments.
Valcourt told CTV Prince Albert the past can never be erased and everyone needs to reconcile and move forward.
Earlier this week, the Assembly of First Nations passed resolutions at its annual meeting in Whitehorse calling on the federal government to apologize and make restitution to those affected by experiments conducted between 1942 and 1952.
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