Article content On Thursday, moments after being sworn-in, Lagimodiere, who is Metis, commented on Canada’s former Indigenous residential school system, saying in part “From my knowledge of it, the residential school system was designed to take Indigenous children and give them the kind of skills and abilities they would need to fit into society as it moves forward.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or PC MLAs break ranks over minister's controversial comments Back to video NDP opposition leader Wab Kinew stepped into Lagimodiere’s media briefing, chastising him over the remarks, saying in part, “It was the expressed intent of residential schools to kill the Indian in the child.”