CANADA
CBC News
A court ruling has compelled the federal government to search RCMP records for evidence of abuse at Bishop Horden Indian Residential School in Moose Factory, Ont.
The ruling comes after a group of former students asked an Ontario Superior Court to ensure the federal government was doing all that is required to search for and disclose evidence related to residential schools.
The nine former students involved in the case attended Bishop Horden residential school in Moose Factory, Ont. in the 1960s and say they suffered physical or sexual abuse.
“The finding that the federal officials have been in breach of their documentary disclosure obligations is very important to the clients I am representing,” said lawyer Fay Brunning in an email.
“If a child was abused and someone reported it to the police, of course documents were generated.”
The former students had claimed the federal government is obliged to provide information about the former residential school, the people that worked there and any charges or convictions on record.
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