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Bar association seeks payment for all Native students
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
The Canadian Bar Association is proposing the Canadian government pay each and every person who attended a Native residential school.
The association said each person, regardless of whether he or she has an abuse claim pending, should receive $10,000 (Canadian) as a "base" amount plus $3,000 for every year spent in one of the schools. This would cover about 86,000 people.
Currently, Native students who have abuse claims can go through the courts or a government mediation process. The association says the government process is flawed.
The Assembly of First Nations has proposed a payout plan as well. It would only be applied to about 13,000 people who have filed abuse claims.
Get the Story:
Pay all residential-school students: lawyers
(CBC 2/22)
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Relevant Links:
Indian Residential Schools Resolution Department -
http://www.irsr-rqpi.gc.ca/english
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