I completely disavow his words.
The priest, Rhéal Forest, made the comments during a handful of masses at St. Emile Catholic Church in Winnipeg earlier this month. Forest was filling in for the parish’s regular priest.
During one service, Forest said he worked in the North for 22 years and believes students enjoyed their time at residential schools. He also suggested survivors claimed they were victims of sexual abuse to get settlement money. If they wanted extra money, for the money that was given to them, they had to lie sometimes, Forest told parishioners. Lie that they were abused sexually and, oop, another $50,000. It’s kind of hard if you are poor not to lie.
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Manitoba RCMP have spent years investigating abuse allegations at residential school
July 27, 2021
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WINNIPEG- A residential school in Manitoba known for harsh discipline and fatal runaway attempts has been the focus of a large-scale, years-long investigation into sexual abuse allegations.
Mounties said Tuesday that officers with the major crime unit began looking into the Fort Alexander Residential School, northeast of Winnipeg, in 2010 and a criminal investigation began the following year.
The school was opened in 1905 in the community of Fort Alexander, which later became the Sagkeeng First Nation. It ran for 66 years until 1970.
Sagkeeng Chief Derrick Henderson said he was a band councillor when the probe started. However, he was only informed of the investigation by RCMP last week, he said.