Two men who were switched at birth around 70 years ago have not received an apology from the government of Manitoba.
Premier Wab Kinew will offer the apology in the legislature chamber.
Richard Beauvais and Edward Ambrose were born in a municipally run hospital in Arborg, Manitoba in 1955 and were sent home with each other’s parents.
Decades later, the truth came to light after one of them took an at-home DNA ancestry test.
Manitoba, under the former Progressive Conservative government, said it had no involvement in the mix-up as the hospital was operated by the municipality before the advent of universal medicare.
But their lawyer, Bill Gange, disclosed that the hospital got most of its funding from the province.
