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No Truth or Reconcilliation for Aging Residential School Survivors

Sad article by Linda Diebel in today’s Toronto Star At parliamentary committee hearings in early 2009 — before the current commission was established — NDP MP Jean Crowder, from B.C., listened to the official Indian Affairs ministry count that 97,000 survivors claimed compensation, with 72,000 approved (average payment, $20,500), but that 20,000 had been found [...]