Manitoba premier apologizes to two men switched at birth decades ago
Posted March 21, 2024 11:04 am.
Last Updated March 21, 2024 2:20 pm.
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has formally apologized to two men who were switched at birth in a hospital almost 70 years ago.
Kinew says it was a terrible wrong that cannot be undone, but it must be acknowledged and atoned for.
The premier says the men were denied connection to their families, and their parents were denied their children.
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Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais were invited onto the floor of the legislature chamber to hear the apology.
The two men were born in a municipally run hospital in Arborg, Man., in 1955 and sent home with each other’s parents.
The truth came to light decades later, after one of them took an at-home DNA ancestry test.
