Miller ‘puzzled’ why feds dropped appeal of Catholic Church’s residential school payments
Marc Miller says he wants to get to the bottom of why Ottawa abandoned its appeal of a ruling releasing the Catholic Church from its settlement obligations to residential school survivors.“I am as puzzled as everyone,” he told The Canadian Press in a recent, wide-ranging interview.““I don’t know what there is to do yet.” Survivors, leaders critical of Ontario residential school burial search fund rollout The ruling, handed down by a Saskatchewan judge in July 2015, found a deal had been struck between the federal government and a corporation of Catholic entities.
That deal released the church groups from their remaining obligations within the $79-million worth of payments and in-kind services owed to survivors under the Indian Residential.
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