Wednesday, December 18, 2013

NAN Rallies

Members of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation are in Toronto rallying in support of St. Anne's Residential School survivors.This is the final day of a two-day hearing in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice where the federal government is being challenged to release documents from a police investigation of residential school abuse at St. Anne's in Fort Albany.NAN Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler says the government's decision to keep evidence from survivors compromises the rights of these survivors and notes they have a legal obligation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement to release the documents. Fiddler stresses the survivors of St. Anne's have suffered enough.