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OTTAWA — A New Democrat member of Parliament said Tuesday she hopes all of her colleagues will now recognize the residential schools system as genocide, now that Pope Francis has used the term.
Gazan said at the time that Canada's residential schools policy met all five criteria, but some voices in the House of Commons said"no," so her motion requiring unanimous consent failed. Thousands of Indigenous adults who were sent there as children have reported rampant physical sexual and emotional abuse, along with neglect and malnutrition. The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation maintains a memorial register for students who died at residential schools and that number is now at 4,120 children.
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