SASKATOON – The president of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan is calling on the province’s premier to follow Manitoba in apologizing for the 60s Scoop. Robert Doucette was four months old when he was taken from his biological mother in Buffalo Narrows and placed with a foster family in Prince Albert.
He is among the latest political leaders in Saskatchewan asking for the premier to apologize for the government’s handling of the events referred to as the 60s Scoop.
An estimated 20,000 aboriginal children were taken by child-welfare agents starting in the 1960s and placed with non-aboriginal families.
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Last week Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger apologized on behalf of his government.
Doucette says Premier Brad Wall and the Saskatchewan legislative assembly need to do right by First Nations and Métis people in the province and all apologize for the events that occurred during the 1960s.
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