Manitoba premier Wab Kinew, left, welcomes Richard Beauvais, centre, and Edward Ambrose, right, to his office in the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg, Manitoba Thursday, March 21, 2014. Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais were born in a municipally run hospital in Arborg, Man., in 1955 and were sent home with each other's parents.
Premier Wab Kinew stood in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly on Thursday and formally apologized to Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais for the mistake that sent them to the wrong homes after their births in 1955.Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew, left, welcomes Richard Beauvais, centre, and Edward Ambrose, right, into his office on Thursday, before offering them a formal apology in the Manitoba Legislature. Ambrose and Beauvais were switched at birth.
The two men, who were both born at an Arborg, Man., hospital on June 28, 1955, sat in the House as they received the apology their lawyer first requested in April 2022. "Our honoured guests here today will perhaps understand compassion and empathy on a level that very few of us will ever be able to approach."Both of Ambrose's parents died by the time he was 12, and Beauvais was taken from his home and lived with foster families, too, Kinew said.Ambrose once asked his biological sister — who he didn't know was his sister at the time — to play on his baseball team at recess as a child, Kinew said.
"Both men are embracing the old but also building something new for themselves and for their families."
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