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Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau apologizes for historic mistreatment of Inuit TB patients

But some criticized the apology, which wasn't accompanied by additional funding or policy changes, as too little, too late.

By Jane George, Nunatsiaq News March 11, 2019
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Inuit in Iqaluit who listened to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologize Friday for the federal government’s mismanagement of the tuberculosis epidemic among Inuit between the 1940s and 1960s responded to him with applause, hugs and tears.

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