CANADA
CBC News
Former residential school students in the North are being taken advantage of by some form filling companies and law firms, according to some Northern lawyers.
Aboriginal people are eligible for payments under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement for serious abuses experienced at the schools.
But lawyers say former students are losing thousands of dollars in exorbitant fees paid to companies that fill out the forms to help them apply for the money.
“We have vulnerable people who are already victimized and for the most part lawyers are doing a really good job, and then you have these few lawyers that everyone is going to remember, and it is just so sad and so disappointing and so wrong, ” said Donna Oliver, a lawyer who represents former students in the Northwest Territories.
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