Trudeau apologizes for government's past mistreatment of Inuit with TB
IQALUIT, Nunavut -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shed tears while he apologized on Friday for the way Inuit in northern Canada were treated for tuberculosis in the mid-20th century, calling it colonial and misguided. Trudeau delivered an apology to the Inuit on behalf of the federal government -- words that prompted many in the room to openly weep. "Today, I am here to offer an official apology for the federal government's management of tuberculosis in the Arctic from the 1940s to the 1960s," h
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