Ottawa breaching Indian residential school settlement agreement: Sen. Murray Sinclair

Ottawa breached the multi-billion dollar Indian residential school settlement agreement by allowing its lawyers to use legalistic tactics to defeat and limit compensation claims from survivors during private hearings, says Sen. Murray Sinclair, who was chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Sinclair said he doubts many residential school survivors would have agreed to the settlement agreement, which was finalized under the Liberal government of Paul Martin, if they knew federal government lawyers would resort to splitting jurisdictional hairs to disqualify compensation claims under the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) which was created by the settlement agreement.

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