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Canada Must Apologize for Postwar Forced Adoptions: Committee
Senators Art Eggleton and Chantal Petitclerc, the chair and deputy chair of the Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, hold a news conference in Ottawa to discuss the committee's report on Canada's post-World War II adoption mandate and its impact on survivors. Valerie Andrews, executive director of Origins Canada, also speaks with reporters. Between the 1940s and the 1970s, over 300,000 unwed women in Canada were forced to give up their babies for adoption. The committee makes four recommendations to address the treatment of unwed mothers, including that the federal government deliver a formal apology in Parliament to the mothers and their children within a year. (July 19, 2018)