Canada seeks to dismiss St. Anne’s residential school survivors’ fight for accountability

January 21, 2025

Federal lawyers are asking a court to dismiss a group of survivors’ fight to hold Canada accountable for withholding evidence of widespread abuse at St. Anne’s Indian Residential School during class-action compensation hearings.The decade-old legal saga continues this week in Ontario Superior Court in Toronto, where former pupils of the notorious Catholic-run school in Fort Albany are responding to the government.mFaced with mainly technical arguments, Edmund Metatawabin, a former Fort Albany First Nation…