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The Globe and Mail

GLORIA GALLOWAY
OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail
Published Tuesday, Jan. 21 2014

The federal Conservative government is taking legal action to force dozens of Catholic organizations that ran aboriginal residential schools to pay their full share of a compensation package promised seven years ago to the schools’ former students.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said in a letter this month that the Catholic groups have not fulfilled their part of the Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

“Although the Catholic Entities have already paid a lot of what they owe under the settlement agreement, it is the government of Canada’s position that they continue to have outstanding obligations,” Mr. Valcourt wrote in a letter dated Jan. 15 to Ronald Kidd, a Vancouver man who had expressed concerns. “Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada is pursuing the Catholics in a legal setting to have…