WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew formally apologized at the provincial legislature Thursday to two men who were switched at birth in a hospital almost 70 years ago.
“Ed and Richard are here today as two people wronged by the Manitoba government and the institutions they should have been able to trust,” Kinew said as Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais sat nearby.The premier said the men were denied connection to their families, and their parents were denied their children."I would say he's a gentleman of heart. I felt very, very good," Beauvais said.
One day in school, a young Ambrose asked a girl from a few towns over to be on his baseball team, not knowing she was his biological sister, said Kinew. “We apologize to your children and grandchildren for depriving them for so many years of their rightful inheritance, culture, identity and, perhaps most of all, family,” Kinew said.“We hope these words will help you to reconcile the person you were for the most extended periods of your life with the person that you were at birth.”
Beauvais has said his father died young and his mother struggled to raise him and his siblings in Saint Laurent, a historically Métis community on the shores of Lake Manitoba. He was sent to a residential day school, was picked on for being Indigenous and was taken from his family and placed in foster homes.The truth that the two had been sent home from the hospital with the wrong families was discovered a few years ago through an at-home ancestry kit.
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