Group petitions PM for national apology to 60s Scoop survivors – CBC

‘It’s not enough, just giving us money,’ says co-founder of Sixties Scoop Network

Oct 26, 2020

A group of Sixties Scoop survivors are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to apologize for the Canada-wide practice that removed thousands of Indigenous children from their families and communities.

“It’s not enough, just giving us money,” said Colleen Hele-Cardinal, co-founder of the Sixties Scoop Network, a grassroots collective of survivors based in Ottawa.

“It needs to be on record that this happened in Canada. It needs to be acknowledged.”

Between the 1950s and early 1990s, over 22,500 Indigenous children in Canada were apprehended by child welfare agencies and placed with non-Indigenous foster or adoptive parents and lost their cultural identities as a result.