In the more than seven decades since Phil Fontaine entered a residential school for Indigenous children in Manitoba, he has spoken of the decade he spent in the system and the abuse he suffered several times.
This week, the former national chief of the Assembly of First Nations will recount it again to Pope Francis. Mr Fontaine and 31 other Indigenous delegates from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities are visiting the Vatican to press for an apology for the church’s role in the government-funded schools.
