e-257 (Immigration)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the House of Commons
- Over 100,000 British Home Children/Child Migrants, were systemically relocated from their British homeland to Canada, in order to indenture them as farm labourers and domestics as part of an unjust immigration policy;
- These vulnerable British Home Children were severed from their families, many were physically and/or mentally harmed, and were stigmatized by Canadian communities meant to foster them;
- Many descendants are unaware of this part of their heritage or are actively searching for the family they have been deprived of;
- The Governments of Australia and the United Kingdom have issued formal apologies for their involvement in this child migrant scheme; and
- Elderly yet surviving Home Children and the estimated four million Canadian descendants of Home Children deserve the same recognition in the form of a formal apology from the Canadian government.
- Open for signature
- March 30, 2016, at 11:27 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- July 28, 2016, at 11:27 a.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Judy A. Sgro
(Humber River—Black Creek)
October 25, 2016 (Petition No. 421-00809) - Government response tabled
- December 8, 2016