CANADA
Toronto Star
By: Donovan Vincent News reporter, Published on Fri Jun 05 2015
A Superior Court judge has ordered Ottawa to perform additional searches for RCMP documents pertaining to allegations of abuse at a residential school at Moose Factory, Ont., in the 1960s.
Ottawa lawyer Fay Brunning is acting on behalf of claimants who say they witnessed events related to the alleged severe beating of a child at the now defunct Bishop Horden Indian Residential School. Some of the claimants say they saw numerous employees or supervisors of the school subsequently fired and or criminally charged.
Brunning had argued in a factum that the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement called for Ottawa to scour its historical records for documents pertaining to the schools including “at the very least” documents about abuse.
But Brunning argued the federal government didn’t meet its legal obligations to do so. Only records kept by Libraries and Archives Canada and Indian Affairs were searched as part of the compensation process, she argued.
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