The heart-wrenching evidence of thousands of residential school survivors who sought compensation for sexual and other forms of abuse should be destroyed after 15 years, Ontario’s top court ruled Monday.
In a split decision, the Court of Appeal found that the material is not a government record, and that it should be left up to the individual survivor on whether they wish to have their material archived or not.
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