Probe ordered in Canadian switched at birth case

Canada is ordering an independent investigation into a case of two men who were switched at birth.

The probe was ordered  after DNA evidence indicated two men from a northern Manitoba indigenous community were switched at birth.

David Tait Jr. was born three days after Leon Swanson in the winter of 1975 at the Norway House Indian Hospital in the western Canadian province.

For years, people in the tiny community had gossiped about why the two men didn't look much like their parents.

The two men say they were devastated after learning that they have been calling the wrong people their family for decades.

Tait said at a tearful news conference on Friday that he wants answers.

The government believes it's the second case of being switched at birth to occur at the hospital.

Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott said it's an unfortunate reminder of how urgent the need is to provide Indigenous First Nation people with better health care.