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Pope Francis’s apology to Indigenous delegates in Rome is by no means the end of the work to help survivors, says Phil Fontaine, former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.
“We never, ever believed that the apology was the final moment in this long, tragic story about residential schools,” he told The Current’s Matt Galloway.
“Now the hard work starts.”
The Pope has been meeting with Indigenous delegations at the Vatican all week to discuss the impact of Canada’s residential school system. On Friday, during a final public audience, he spoke
