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for the sins and crimes committed by the Catholic Church against Indigenous peoples during the so-called conquest of the Americas.
Even though a 2015 Angus Reid Institute survey found two of three Canadians admire Pope Francis, the same pollster discovered this year that 24 per cent of Canadians believe Roman Catholicism has beento the nation, while 21 per cent think it’s been beneficial. Most of the rest think it’s had no real impact. Islam does a bit worse than Catholicism. But Canadians’ positive assessments of Protestantism, Judaism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Judaism and atheism outweigh negative ones.
Last year, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the highest-profile person pressing for the Pope to fly to Canada. Although some suggest Trudeau was diverting the blame from Ottawa, which founded and funded the schools in 1881 before most were shut down by the 1970s, the prime minister has regularly expanded on former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper’s apology of 2008.Article content
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