Foster care is modern-day residential school system: Inuk MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq
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By Teresa Wright, The Canadian Press on June 4, 2021.
NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq rises in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Thursday, May 13, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
OTTAWA – In the wake of the tragic discovery of an unmarked burial site in Kamloops, B.C., the Liberals are facing tough questions about ongoing harms being suffered by Indigenous children in the child welfare system – a system an Inuk MP says is no different than residential schools.
Mumilaaq Qaqqaq, who represents Nunavut, said she has seen far too many friends and Inuit in her territory dying by suicide and children being taken from their homes and placed in the child welfare system.
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