Trudeau says Canadians ‘horrified and ashamed’ of forced assimilation

• PM responds to discovery of graves at Indigenous schools

• Trudeau stops short of ordering national investigation

Justin Trudeau has said that Canadians are “horrified and ashamed” by their government’s longtime policy of forcing Indigenous children to attend boarding schools where nearly 1,000 unmarked graves have now been discovered – but stopped short of launching a national investigation.

An estimated 751 unmarked graves were recently discovered on the grounds of the former Marieval Indian residential school in Saskatchewan which operated from 1899 to 1997. Last month, some 215 remains were reported at a similar school in British Columbia.

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