Premier Wynne has made the formal apology which was expected Monday on behalf of the Ontario government to First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities for what she called the “brutalities” suffered at residential schools. “I apologize for the polices and practices supported by past Ontario governments and for the harm they caused,” she told the legislature as Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors looked on. “I apologize for the province’s silence in the face of abuses and deaths at residential schools. And I apologize for the fact that the residential schools are only one example of systemic, intergenerational injustices inflicted upon Indigenous communities throughout Canada.”
