A lengthy review by Ottawa of people
abused as children at Canada’s infamous Indian residential schools has
found that fewer than 200 claims were dismissed or reduced after federal
lawyers successfully argued that some of the institutions ceased being
subject to a massive settlement deal.
But
the year-long analysis did not look at how many former students of the
church-run schools withdrew their claims after being convinced that the
legal argument, known as the administrative split, left them with no
chance of receiving an award under the Indian Residential Schools
settlement agreement.