TORONTO-Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Wednesday (June 11) will rise in the House of Commons to issue a historic apology to the country’s aboriginal peoples for the government’s role in church-run residential schools. Operated jointly with four Christian churches, the schools were often scenes of physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse of its students, who were taken from their homes in an effort to forcibly assimilate them. Aboriginals across Canada have waited decades for Ottawa to apologize, not just for the abuse that occurred as a result of the policy, but for the policy itself. The schools were run in conjunction with the Roman Catholic, Anglican, United and Presbyterian churches. All but the Catholic Church have already apologized for their roles in the schools.