Canada signs $1.1B settlement with survivors of ‘Indian hospitals’ – APTN News

Mar 06, 2025

Compensation not capped in deal that must be approved by Federal Court.

Canada is offering to settle a class-action lawsuit seeking damages for mistreatment of former patients in federal “Indian hospitals”, APTN News has learned.

The proposed out-of-court settlement is to be announced Thursday by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree and representative plaintiff Ann Cecile Hardy in Ottawa.

Details shared with APTN show more than a billion dollars would be available to compensate an estimated 100,000 Indigenous survivors of the segregated medical and Tuberculosis-treatment facilities.

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