CANADA
CBC News
By Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press Posted: Dec 13, 2016
Two survivors of a notorious Indian residential school want the courts to ensure they aren’t forced to foot the government’s legal bills if they lose a complex case involving hidden police documents and a dispute over compensation for the abuse they say they suffered.
The government, however, was set to argue at a hearing on Wednesday that the request for a no-costs guarantee should be rejected out of hand.
The claimants in the case, Edmund Metatawabin and a woman known as K-10106, attended the church-run St. Anne’s residential school in Fort Albany, Ont., which was equipped with an electric chair used to shock students.
Metatawabin, who also speaks for the Peetabeck Keyway Keykaywin Association or PKKA — a group of St. Anne’s survivors — and the woman both say they were victims of horrific abuse that included being forced to eat vomit.
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