How Canada's Catholic Church escaped payments to residential school survivors
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Indigenous Peoples
Ruling that there was a legal agreement made and the church was let off the hook is frustrated some experts. One expert says it effectively bound, you know, the church and the government on a deal that really could have benefited survivors further. I realize that 20 million dollars doesn't sound like that much, but this is a group of people that have been so systemically disadvantaged and ignored by the government in the past, by the media. Any amount really does make a difference. And we're seeing it now, right we're seeing that the survivors to day, are still reckoning with all this,. especially in in the wake of the son going discoveries ofa margraves.
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