Apology to First Nations

Date: June 11, 2008 • Location: Ottawa, Canada

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.

Stephen Joseph Harper is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. He is the only prime minister to have belonged to the modern Conservative Party of Canada. He co-founded the party and served as its first leader from 2004 to 2015. Since 2018, he has been the chairman of the International Democracy Union.