-CP- A social worker with decades of experience working with the Innu in Newfoundland and Labrador has told a public inquiry that government social services that were supposed to help have in fact undermined and harmed Indigenous families. Lyla Andrew, who grew up in Toronto and attended university there, was fresh out of graduate school in the late 1970s when she began working in the Innu community of Sheshatshiu. She said she started her career with the commonly held — but incorrect — belief that she had something to give the Innu that they did not have. “The learning process was that my assumption was very wrong,” Andrew said in pre-recorded testimony played at an inquiry hearing in Sheshatshiu. “In fact, I don’t think what we were trying to share…
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