CANADA
The Globe and Mail
COLIN PERKEL
TORONTO — The Canadian Press
Published Tuesday, Dec. 17 2013
Survivors of a notorious residential school in Northern Ontario were in court Tuesday fighting the federal government for access to thousands of documents they say are crucial to their compensation claims.
The survivors accuse Ottawa of hampering their bid for financial redress by hiding documentary evidence related to a provincial police investigation into St. Anne’s Indian Residential School in Fort Albany.
“The St. Anne’s school is probably one of the most outrageous examples of the abuse of school children in Canadian history,” said commission lawyer Julian Falconer.
“The truth has to be told.”
The federal government has maintained it has no authority to turn over the police materials.
However, a lawyer for the Ontario Provincial Police told Ontario Superior Court he had no issue turning over the records – if authorized by the courts.
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