A legal miscue that allowed the Catholic Church to walk away from part
of its promise to compensate survivors of Indian residential schools has
former victims angry and frustrated
Vivian Ketchum, 51 Attended Cecilia Jeffrey residential school in Kenora, Ont., in the early 1970s.
News
of the Catholic entities’ unfulfilled financial obligations made Vivian
Ketchum “extremely angry,” she said. The money, she believes, could be
used for a 24-hour youth crisis centre in Kenora, where indigenous youth
suicide is epidemic.