CANADA
Metro
By Sue Bailey
The Canadian Press
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – Fred Andersen and other former students of residential schools in Labrador will be in court in St. John’s, N.L., Tuesday to fight for an apology and compensation from Ottawa.
They’re among just over 1,000 plaintiffs in five certified class-action lawsuits who were excluded from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apology in 2008 and a related compensation package.
Lawyers for the federal government deny it was responsible for schools located in St. Anthony, Cartwright, North West River, Nain and Makkovik that opened before the province joined Confederation in 1949.
The International Grenfell Association ran the first three, while the German-based Moravian Missionaries ran the other two.
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