CANADA
Toronto Star
By TANYA TALAGA
Global Economics Reporter
Wed., Dec. 14, 2016
Survivors of the St. Anne’s residential school in Fort Albany, Ont., will have to wait until March to find out if the courts will even proceed with their abuse compensation case.
Edmund Metatawabin and a woman known only as K-10106 attended the notorious St. Anne’s, a church-run, federally funded school when they were young children. They say they were victims of horrific abuse, including being shocked by an electrified chair and having to eat their own vomit.
Metatawabin and the female survivor have led a court challenge, arguing they should receive proper compensation for the abuse they suffered.
The two survivors want the Superior Court to order a full-scale inquiry into why records of a criminal investigation and prosecutions that took place as a result of abuse allegations were only disclosed under court orders in 2014. This secrecy and delay meant other survivors missed out on compensation granted under settlement of a class action related to the residential school system, they say.
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