OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being urged to take advantage of an audience with Pope Francis this week to seek a formal apology for the role the Roman Catholic Church played in Canada’s residential school disgrace.NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says the timing of Harper’s visit to the Vatican is fortuitous, coming just one week after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission called on the pope to travel to Canada to issue an apology.Mulcair says Harper should ask Pope Francis if he’d be willing to do so.Harper is scheduled to meet the pope on Thursday, as he wraps up a …read more
Source: National Newswatch
