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OTTAWA, March 29 PRNewswire — The second phase of a national notification programme has begun, on behalf of Courts across Canada, to alert former students of the Indian residential school system and their families that they must decide whether to stay in the settlement or remove themselves (opt out) from it by August 20, 2007. Notices will be distributed, published, mailed, and broadcast throughout Canada, describing the settlement benefits and how to get them for those who stay in, and explaining what it means to opt out and how to opt out.

...The opt out period formally began immediately following a Court hearing on March 22, 2007, and notices were placed on the Court website

http://www.residentialschoolsettlement.ca.

Community outreach coordinators will begin informing former students across Canada, and phone calls will be placed to those who previously came forward.

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NDP aboriginal affairs critic Jean Crowder accused the Conservatives of shunting aside aboriginals, a political non-entity when it comes to Tory voter support.

"There is no action to close the poverty gap for First Nations, the clawback of money to promote and protect Indigenous languages, no movement on self-government negotiations and now the Conservatives refuse to recognize the wrong-headed, damaging policies of past governments."

Prentice blasted back with his oft-used reference to a Liberal ``legacy of 13 years of broken promises" that he says did little to help aboriginal people.

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Our two old line political parties have been directly responsible for Canadian apartheid since John A McDonald haunted the halls of power in Ottawa.

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Bankrupt the churches involved! Especially since at least one of them still advocates the persecution of other marginalized groups - namely gays and women, and therefore have obviously NOT learned their lesson. No protection!

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Michelle: I hope enough people opt out to sue those churches into the ground. I've always felt rather pissed off that the government is bailing the churches out on this one.

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Those churches functioned as arms of the state, carrying out the official policy of trying to annihilate aboriginal culture, languages, etc., and assimilating aboriginal people into the larger society. They were carrying out orders and getting paid for it as well. Why shouldn't government bail them out for services rendered [to government]?

The government must be sued separately from the church.

What I mean the only event when the government must bail out the Church is after the latter has been found with not enough money to compensate and had declared bankrupcy.

How do we stop the genocide is the question ...

Health Canada muzzles oil sands whistleblower

sorry, i don't know how to link to my other post ... I just get an 'image'.

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