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	Rejected Residential School Survivors Expected to Sue The Standard May 2, 2008 http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1009300 The federal government will likely face a class-action lawsuit from residential school survivors whose claims for compensation payments have been rejected, national Grand Chief Phil Fontaine. Fontaine told the Winnipeg Free Press in a report out of Ottawa that most of the applicants who were denied compensation were rejected because they were day students, not residents. Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada rejected applications from 17,226 survivors as of April 21. That is more than one in every five applications received by the agency of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Ottawa paid out more than $1.3 billion to 63,212 people as part of a massive compensation package for cultural losses and widespread abuse and death in the now-defunct schools. There are 11,011 applications still being processed.
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