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Canada indigenous ask pope for residential schools records

Metis National Council president Cassidy Caron speaks to the media after meeting with Pope Francis near St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Survivors of Canada's residential schools on Monday asked Pope Francis to guarantee unfettered access to Church records on the institutions where indigenous children were abused and their culture denied.

Francis met for about an hour each with representatives of the Métis and Inuit nations, the first of four meetings this week with Canada's native peoples in what both sides have called a called a process of healing and reconciliation.

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