$25,000 settlement for Sixties Scoop survivors a ‘slap in the face’ – CTV News
April 7, 2022
Brenda Marcoux has been struggling this week after the announcement that lawyers representing survivors in the 60s Scoop class action settlement against the Canadian government are requesting court approval to issue a final $4,000 payment to those who signed up for the case.
That $4,000 would be in addition to $21,000 members of the class action received in 2020.
“It’s like they paid $25,000 to erase the Indian,” said Marcoux, who is Interior Salish from the Ts’kw’aylaxw First Nation in Lillooet, B.C.
During the so-called Sixties Scoop, people were taken from their communities, cultures and ways of life and placed elsewhere into foster care or adoption arrangements. Often, they were relocated far away from their home communities, and many faced abuse and dangerous situations after being moved.
