How the Catholic Church in Canada Escaped Payments to Residential School Survivors
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Posted on October 14, 2021 at 7:01 a.m. ADT

File photo dated November 15, 2020 of Catholic believers gathered in front of Saint-André Cathedral in Bordeaux, France. Photo by Thibaud Moritz / ABACAPRESS.COM
In today’s podcast The Big Story, the Canadian government believed it was an agreement on a minor part of the settlement the church owed to residential schools. The church was successful in convincing a court that the government had agreed to forgo the entire remaining amount – potentially more than $ 20 million. How did a legal loophole allow the church to avoid payment, and … one has to wonder: why didn’t the Catholic Church just pay what it owed in reparation for? the role she played in the horrors of residential schools?
GUEST: Tom Cardoso, Globe and Mail Investigative Team
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