CANADA
CBC News
About 60 residential school survivors have been successful in their bid to have files from the Ontario Provincial Police released in order to support their claims for compensation for abuse.
In a written decision released today, Ontario Superior Court Judge Paul Perell ruled the documents from a five-year investigation at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany be turned over. The criminal investigation was conducted in the 1990s.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair Justice Murray Sinclair applauded the decision.
“The release of these records is critical not only to survivors who were badly abused, but to Canadians as a whole,” he said in a written statement.
“Reconciliation between aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples in Canada depends on a shared and complete understanding of the residential school experience.”
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