BR Switched At Birth – CP

Source: The Canadian Press – Broadcast wire
Nov 22, 2016

WINNIPEG – Health Minister Jane Philpott says the federal government will be supporting four indigenous men from northern Manitoba who were switched at birth over 40 years ago.

D-N-A tests have shown two sets of babies were switched at a federally run hospital in Norway House during the 1970s.

The men only recently learned what happened to them.

Philpott met yesterday in Winnipeg with three of the men, their families and First Nations band councillors.

Eric Robinson, a spokesman for the families, says they want a public apology in Parliament and counselling as they come to terms with what happened.

Robinson says the men were bullied as kids because they didn’t look like other family members, and the bullying has grown since the mix-ups were made public.

The federal government has asked an independent third party to investigate what went wrong.

The R-C-M-P is also investigating.

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(The Canadian Press)

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