NAN Rallying Behind St. Anne’s Survivors

The Deputy Grand Chief of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation is rallying behind St. Anne’s Residential School survivors.
Alvin Fiddler is in Toronto where survivors of the notorious northern Ontario residential school are in court fighting the federal government for access to documents.
This is the final day of the two day hearing.
Fiddler says the government’s decision to keep evidence from survivors compromises their rights and the government has a legal obligation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement to release the documents.
Fiddler notes it’s shameful that the government shields those responsible rather than expose the truth and claims their attempt to suppress police evidence is an abuse of the spirit of the Privacy Act.
Beatings, rape and the use of an electric chair were documented by a 5-year investigation by the Ontario Provincial Police which resulted in the criminal convictions of several school officials.
Fiddler stresses the survivors of St. Anne’s in Fort Albany have suffered enough.