Lheidli T’enneh chief demands Pope Francis come to Canada

PRINCE GEORGE – Monday, Chief Dolleen Logan of the Lheidli T’enneh demanded that Pope Francis come to Canada and visit the residential school in both B.C. and Saskatchewan, saying this is the only way healing can begin.

“I learned last week that a group of Canadian Indigenous leaders is scheduled to travel to meet the Pope at the Vatican in December to seek an apology for the deaths and ill-treatment of Indigenous children, while in the care of staff at Catholic residential schools,” said Logan. “Here we are in 2021 having a chosen few visit the leader of the Catholic Church, who has shown no intent of accepting responsibility for what happened to Indigenous kids at Catholic residential schools. Why is it we still capitulate to the Pope?”

Chief Logan adding, that if the Pope was serious about reconciling with Indigenous leaders, he would come here and not the other way around.