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The Canadian government says it regrets the "mistakes and broken promises" it made in forcing some Inuit to relocate to the High Arctic in the 1950s.
Indian and Northern Affairs Minister John Duncan issued a formal apology Wednesday for the government's controversial High Arctic relocation program, in which 19 Inuit families from Inukjuak in northern Quebec were moved about 1,200 kilometres to the far northern settlements of Grise Fiord and Resolute, in what is now Nunavut.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/08/18/apology-inuit-relocation.html#ixzz0wyxcMkIf