HALIFAX — Nova Scotia has suffered from institutional racism, Premier Stephen McNeil acknowledged Friday as the government released a report outlining its role in an inquiry into decades of abuses at a former Halifax-area orphanage. The home, which opened in 1921, was the site of alleged mistreatment and abuse from the 1940s through until the early 1980s. “Government is committed to critically examining its role in the history of the NSHCC (orphanage) as a pathway to address how the legacy of systemic and institutional racism has impacted individuals, families and communities for generations in Nova Scotia,” the report states. McNeil said the government is committed to seeing the inquiry through to the end. “Not only will it be very powerful for Nova Scotia, I think the process that we’ve landed on will be replicated beyond,” he said.

Source: National Post October 20, 2017 13:32 UTC