Thousands of records are to be destroyed within five years, but some argue they could be crucial to identifying children who died.
It was part of the settlement negotiated between the federal government, church entities and national Indigenous groups. Under the agreement, survivors could make claims about the sexual and physical abuses they endured at the government-funded, church-run institutions, as well as “any other wrongful acts” committed by former staff and other students.
She left the experience retraumatized, she said, describing it as a “really, really terrible process.” The Assembly of First Nations supported the latter position. Phil Fontaine, the former chief of the advocacy organization who helped negotiate the settlement, submitted an affidavit outlining his desire to see the records destroyed unless a survivor agreed to have them archived.Article contentPhil Fontaine, former chief of the Assembly of First Nations on why he wanted abuse records destroyed
Shingoose says the transcript of her hearing runs 278-pages long and blacks out the names from her Catholic-run school, which she and others have likened to “protecting the abuser.”Article content In its 2017 ruling, the top court concluded promising the utmost confidentiality for both complainants and perpetrators was “inescapable” in order for the compensation process to work.
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