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Golden West Broadcasting apologized after some of its radio stations ran an ad by the Frontier Centre for Public Policy which suggested the trauma caused by Indian residential schools is a myth.

“We’re sorry for letting it get on our airwaves with this kind of a message, so we’re going to make very sure that we don’t let this kind of message get on the radio again … It shouldn’t have aired at all,” Golden West president Lyndon Friesen said in an interview.

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The organization vets ads before they run, but “we didn’t look at this one closely enough, obviously,” he said. “I’m not sure why this one didn’t get vetted out.”

Golden West owns radio stations in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Friesen said he could not recall which stations ran the ad or in which communities it ran. He said the ad ran once about two weeks ago and some people who heard it contacted the company to raise concerns.

An emailed statement issued by Golden West Tuesday afternoon stated that an apology would be issued on the stations that ran the ad “and measures are being taken to ensure material like this does not air on our stations in the future.”