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By Geoff Bartlett, CBC News Posted: Jun 14, 2017
Just over a year after Ottawa agreed to pay $50 million to people who suffered abuse at residential schools in Newfoundland and Labrador, work on the healing portion of the agreement has begun.
Last week, the Department of Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development announced that retired judge James Igloliorte will be its ministerial special representative.
That means he will lead the healing and commemoration portion of the agreement, going into mostly northern Labrador communities and speaking with students from all three affected Indigenous groups who attended residential schools. His activities will be funded by the federal government outside of the $50 million settlement.
Igloliorte said the task before him may seem daunting, but he plans to start small by opening conversation with the former students and their families and then going from there.
“We will hear the stories, both good and bad,” he told the St. John’s Morning Show.
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