'I think for a lot of survivors, the trip is meaningful, the apology is meaningful,' said David MacDonald, a U of G political science professor at who has written extensively on the residential school system
GUELPH — As Pope Francis makes his way across Canada to address the harms of Indigenous residential schools, survivors, academics and politicians alike are calling the visit an important step.
GuelphToday reached out to the University of Guelph's Indigenous Student Centre, as well as the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation for comment, but didn't get a response by the time this article was published. "It's time for the Pope to decide to give us back artifacts, objects that were taken from us that are all at the Vatican and in churches, documents about young people who died," St-Onge said."I think there's a level of transparency that has to take place," he said, noting the Roman Catholic Church needs to pay what they owe under the Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, implemented in September 2007, and allow access to their archives.
"The Pope has basically apologized for some church priests, nuns and others who committed crimes," he said.
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