The province is calling for a federal investigation into how two Manitoba men were switched at birth.
Eric Robinson, minister of aboriginal and northern affairs, held a news conference Friday with the men who grew up on Garden Hill First Nation.
A recent DNA test showed they grew up in families that were not their own.
The names of the men switched at birth are Luke Monias and Norman Barkman.
Monias and Barkman were born in the Norway House Indian Hospital at Norway House, on June 19, 1975, to Rosamund Monias and Rebecca Barkman of Garden Hill, said the province.
Robinson said the two boys grew up as close friends in Garden Hill and many people noticed as they grew older that they resembled each other’s family members more than their own.
DNA tests were conducted this summer, with results coming in on Nov. 10.
Robinson has called on the federal government to investigate, as the hospital where the men were born was federally run.
Monias and Barkman said they would like an apology and answers on how it happened.
Robinson said the error has caused a lot of heartbreak in the community, among the men's children, siblings and other relatives.
- with files from The Canadian Press
