“Whether we succeeded or didn’t succeed, the exercise now is for Canadians, all Canadians, to engage in a healing process to examine the harm that was done, not just to First Nations, but to a good number of caring, non-First Nations people who took on the adoption of Indian children or permanent guardianship, and who also were deprived of information that would help them in their care,” the …
94 First Nations Bands Join Day Scholars Lawsuit by pmnationtalk on March 15, 201630 Views Date Posted: 2016-03-14 | The opt-in period is over and it is clear that the Day Scholars Class Action has strong support all across Canada. 94 separate bands have come forward to be included in the lawsuit representing every province where an Indian Residential School was located. Launched in 2012 by the …
Hundreds of First Nations’ people left out of residential-school compensation will be allowed to collectively sue the federal government for their mistreatment. The decision comes one day after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a momentous report on the same school system. Federal Court in Vancouver certified a class-action lawsuit on Wednesday proposed by the former aboriginal …