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It’s about time.
That was the response from a residential school survivor in Winnipeg on Pope Francis’s unqualified use of the word genocide to describe what happened to Indigenous Peoples forced to attend the schools in Canada.
“It’s about time that they use these kind of words to describe what happened to our people. It’s about time that we’re saying words that have meaning and truth,” said Jennifer Wood, who works with the Winnipeg-based National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
“And that for it to come from the highest of the Vatican, saying it in our homeland, it’s
