{"id":59,"date":"2008-06-12T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philbu.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/12\/canadian-government-apologies-to-residential-schools-survivors"},"modified":"2016-12-07T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T11:17:24","slug":"canadian-government-apologies-to-residential-schools-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/canadian-government-apologies-to-residential-schools-survivors\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian government apologies to residential schools&#8217; survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologies to Aboriginal students and survivors of residential schools:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: arial;\">&#8220;Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today to offer an apology to former students of Indian residential schools. The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history.<br \/>\nIn the 1870&#8217;s, the federal government, partly in order to meet its obligation to educate aboriginal children, began to play a role in the development and administration of these schools.<br \/>\nTwo primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.<br \/>\n(&#8230;)&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;\">from <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/story\/2008\/06\/11\/pm-statement.html\">CBC News<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pm.gc.ca\/eng\/media_gallery.asp?media_category_id=20&amp;media_id=2011#tag\">Video from Harper&#8217;s Office<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">More Info at: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.knet.ca\/node\/4212\">http:\/\/media.knet.ca\/node\/4212<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologies to Aboriginal students and survivors of residential schools: &nbsp; &#8220;Mr. Speaker, I stand before you today to offer an apology to former students of Indian residential schools. The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history. In the 1870&#8217;s, the federal government, partly&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/canadian-government-apologies-to-residential-schools-survivors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Canadian government apologies to residential schools&#8217; survivors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,33],"tags":[153,154,168],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-first-nations","category-politics","tag-canada","tag-first-nations","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philbu.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}