Residential school survivors fighting Ottawa over access to police records
TORONTO, Cananda – Survivors of a notorious Indian residential school in northern Ontario are in court in Toronto today fighting the federal government for access to documents.
The survivors accuse Ottawa of thwarting their attempts to win compensation by hiding thousands of pages of documentary evidence.
The records are from a provincial police investigation into St. Anne’s in Fort Albany.
The police probe in the 1990s turned up evidence of horrific abuse, including use of an electric chair and led to criminal convictions.
The federal government has maintained it has no authority to turn over the police materials.
Hundreds of aboriginal children from remote James Bay communities were sent to the school from 1904 to 1976.
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