Sixties Scoop truth readily available

Re. “Sixties Scoop hosts deserve apology,” Letters, May 30

Richard Cardinal: Cry From A Diary of a Metis Child is probably a film Brad Gibson has never seen.

Richard was in 28 different foster homes during his 14 years in Alberta. He hanged himself on a crossbar between two trees near his final foster home in 1984.

The subsequent Kimelman Report in 1985 by Associate Chief Justice Edwin Kimelman made 109 recommendations to address the Sixties Scoop and referred to the loss of children as a cultural genocide. Mr. Gibson has likely never read it.

I knew a young man who had had 63 placements in 16 years. He got bounced around until he got old enough to keep running away to be with his mother.

He died at 32 from a drug overdose and finally got his wish when he was buried beside her.

You won’t read about him anywhere but there are hundreds of survivor stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report available to anyone who wishes to learn the truth.

Mr. Gibson wants to blame parents of the Sixties Scoop children but the blame goes much further back, as many Canadians are beginning to learn and finally understand — Canadians who are not afraid to educate themselves lest they be wrong.

Tom Frazier, Bon Accord