The federal NDP and the Green Party are urging Ottawa to reopen the multi-billion dollar federal Indian day school settlement agreement.CBC NewsLori Idlout, NDP MP for Nunavut, said she hopes the Supreme Court of Canada hears an appeal by a day school survivor who wants to resubmit her claim. The federal NDP and the Green Party are urging Ottawa to reopen the multi-billion-dollar federal Indian day school settlement agreement.
Jessie Waldron, who attended the Waterhen Lake Indian Day School in the 1960s and 1970s, told CBC News she couldn't reach the claims administrator Deloitte for help, or the law firm Gowling WLG, which was hired to represent survivors in a class action lawsuit against Ottawa. "The first priority certainly is to ensure that claimants have more time and have more support to fill out these claims."Pedneault said the Greens will be pushing the Liberal government in the House of Commons to reopen the compensation process.
Idlout said her niece, who lives in Igloolik, Nunavut, needs to travel to Iqaluit to obtain the court records necessary to move forward with the process — a trip that costs thousands of dollars.Jonathan Pedneault, deputy leader of the Green Party of Canada, said day school survivors shouldn't have to fight the federal government in court for compensation that was promised to them.
They could apply for five levels of compensation, ranging from $10,000 for verbal and physical abuse to $200,000 for repeated sexual abuse. Each level of claim required more detail and corroborative evidence.About three quarters of the claims were paid at Level 1 for $10,000 — the lowest amount of compensation — while one quarter was paid at the higher levels of compensation, according to March 4 figures from Deloitte.
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