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Forty-year old Canadian buddies learn they were switched a birth

Published 2015-11-13, 03:44 p/m
Forty-year old Canadian buddies learn they were switched a birth

By Rod Nickel
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Two Canadian men who
grew up as close friends made the shocking discovery this year
that they were switched at birth 40 years ago, the government of
the Canadian province of Manitoba said on Friday.
Luke Monias and Norman Barkman were born June 19, 1975 in
the twin northern Manitoba communities known as Norway House,
and grew up on the Garden Hill reserve, which now has a
population of about 2,800 and is accessible only by airplane and
ice roads.
As they grew up, people noticed how they resembled each
other's family more than their own, the Manitoba government said
in a statement.
DNA testing this summer confirmed that the woman who raised
Barkman is not his biological mother, and that Monias is
actually her child by birth. Barkman's true biological mother is
deceased.
"I just want to know what happened," Barkman told reporters
in Winnipeg.
Monias contacted Manitoba's minister for aboriginal and
northern affairs, Eric Robinson, in July and the Manitoba
government has since asked Ottawa to investigate how the switch
happened. Canada's health department, which operated the Norway
House hospital, could not immediately comment.
"This horrible and irresponsible mix-up at the hospital has
caused long-term damage to both these men and their families,"
Robinson said, adding that it has affected their health.
In February, a court in France ruled that two women switched
at birth more than 20 years ago will both receive 400,000 euros
($429,280) in damages. urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N0VK34Y
($1 = 0.9318 euros)

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