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My Stories, My Times by Jean Chrétien6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Oct. My Stories, My Times: 2 Volume Set by Jean Chretien Hardcover Book Condition: Fine Jacket Condition: Fine Category: History - Canadian ISBN: 9780735277342. This simple but joyous collection of anecdotes and memories fills me with two reactions: (1) I miss Jean Chretien and his leadership very much (2) I have never. He pointed to the adoption by him and his wife Aline of an 18-month-old Indigenous boy as evidence of his devotion to the cause. ![]() "Someone in my family, who went to a residential school in Fort George, told me they were sexually assaulted every day, for eight years by a nun," Jean said.Ĭhrétien repeated throughout Sunday's interview that he deeply cared about Indigenous issues while he was in power. While Chrétien said he never heard of nor experienced abuse while he was in boarding school, insinuating he "mustn't have been a pretty boy at that time," Jean recalled completely different stories from his family. ![]() "And he's not alone." Jean explained that most people tend to wrongly associate these institutions with schools, where you "teach people how to write." Chrétien, with all respect, doesn't exactly realize what a residential school was," Jean said. Innu author Michel Jean, another guest on the talk show, criticized Chrétien's comparison of residential schools to his own boarding school experience. ![]()
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