CANADA
CBC News
Dozens of people gathered in Saskatoon today to draw attention to the recent discovery that nutritional experiments were carried out on aboriginals during the 1940s and ’50s.
The rally took place at the Vimy Memorial Bandshell, where the crowd collected at noon to talk, pray and pressure the federal government to release documents that could reveal further abuses. Ottawa promised to release documents to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after its 2008 apology to residential school survivors.
Erica Lee, an organizer of the event, anticipates this is only the beginning.
“What we’re hoping is that it will kick off more pressure on the federal government to release residential school documentation that hasn’t been released and also to keep it fresh in the minds of Canadians that this is a legacy that we’ve all inherited as Canadians and we have to address it,” she said.
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