OTTAWA ANNOUNCE $800M COMPENSATION FOR 60s SCOOP SURVIVORS

Oct 06, 2017

By Bob Komsic

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The Trudeau government’s reached an agreement in principle worth $800-million with survivors of the 60s Scoop.
In making the announcement, Crown-Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said this will ”begin to right the wrongs” caused by forcibly removing Indigenous children from their birth families.
(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)
”They have lived their lives not being able to be proud Indigenous people.  They have lived their lives not having secure personal cultural identity.  That was robbed away.”
Bennett says a final agreement still needs to be reached but that the government has set aside $750-million for individual compensation.
Another $50-million will go toward a foundation dedicated to reconciliation initiatives.
(Chris Young/Canadian Press)
The settlement aims to resolve 18 lawsuits. 
The only one certified as a class action was filed in Ontario by Marcia Brown Martel, a member of the Temagami First Nation, who hopes this means the mistakes of the past will not be repeated.
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