Federal government settles residential school reparations class action for $2.8 billion
Suit was filed in 2012 over destruction of language and culture caused by residential school systemA memorial outside the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in 2021. The federal government has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the loss of culture and language brought on by Indian residential schools for $2.8 billion.
The fund organization will be governed by a board of nine Indigenous directors, of whom Canada will choose one, the agreement says."While settlements like those announced today ... do not make up for the past, what it can do is address the collective harm caused by Canada's past," said Marc Miller, the minister for Crown-Indigenous relations, at a Vancouver event Saturday morning. "The loss of language, the loss of culture and heritage.
Plaintiffs in the case, which was initially filed by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc and shíshálh Nation in British Columbia, developed a disbursement plan for the funds, according to officials.
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