Lawyer says Ottawa misled committee overseeing residential schools claims

CANADA
Sudbury.com

OTTAWA — A lawyer is accusing the federal government of withholding important documents from people seeking redress for alleged abuse in Indian residential schools.

He also says the government misled the committee charged with supervising the compensation process.

And that oversight committee, the lawyer argues, is unwilling to do anything about it.

The case is an example of how residential school survivors are dependent on the federal government to provide records that support their demands for justice, leaving them feeling like the decks are stacked against them.

“There seems to be no way to make Canada actually hand over the documents that it itself believes are relevant to the arguments it makes why people can’t claim anything under this process. And there is no one who wants to hold them to account,” said Montreal-based lawyer David Schulze.

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