Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Deadline Today For Residential School Survivors


Today is the last day for aboriginals who suffered physical or sexual abuse in residential schools to apply for federal compensation.  After the deadline at midnight tonight, the only way anyone can file a new claim is through court action.  Residential schools operated during much of the 19th and 20th centuries as part of federal policy aimed at forcing the assimilation of young aboriginal people into European-Canadian society.