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Day Scholars Settlement and Yves-François Blanchet - June 9, 2021
Scrums, news conferences, committees, conferences – highlights from the working day in Canadian politics. (Public affairs) In a virtual news conference, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett announces that a settlement has been reached with residential school survivors known as day scholars. She is joined by representative plaintiffs in the Gottfriedson Indian Residential Schools Day Scholar class action. Day scholars attended residential schools but did not live there. They filed a class action against the federal government because they were not eligible for compensation as part of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement that was announced in 2006. Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet speaks with reporters on Parliament Hill.