REGINA — Survivors of the ’60s Scoop in Saskatchewan are hoping an apology from the provincial government comes with action to reduce the number of children in care. The government has said it has an agreement with an association of ’60s Scoop survivors that compensation will not be part of the apology. Robert Doucette, a survivor and co-chair of an association of ’60s Scoop survivors, said the sharing circles were useful. He, too, hopes the apology brings a change and suggests it’s one of the first steps in reconciliation. “It only validates what we believed all along that, due to circumstances, our family was not wrong for what was going on.”Opoonechaw-Bellegarde, whose parents were residential school survivors, hopes Moe also apologizes to survivors’ parents.

Source: National Post January 06, 2019 15:00 UTC