More than 300,000 Canadian mothers were forced to give up their babies. They are waiting for an apology

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More than 300,000 unwed Canadian women were forced to give up their babies in the decades after the Second World War.

Though many of these forcible adoptions happened in religious maternity homes that received public funding, the federal government has yet to offer a formal apology.