The Indigenous Files: Ottawa announces $2.8 billion settlement of B.C. day-scholar suit

The federal government has come to a $2.8-billion agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by members of a British Columbia Indigenous band who attended residential schools as day scholars.

Crown-Indigenous Affairs Minister Marc Miller said the government signed the deal with plaintiffs representing 325 members of the Gottfriedson Band that opted into the suit.

Source: Ottawa announces $2.8 billion settlement of B.C. day-scholar suit (msn.com)

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