“The Canadian government likely ‘owes’ ‘Indigenous’ {sic} people almost $76 billion for currently filed land claims and lawsuits, recent official reporting says — a sum that’s nearly seven times greater today than when Justin Trudeau became prime minister.
“In 2015, Ottawa counted $11 billion in “contingent liabilities“, which are potential legal obligations recorded only in cases where the probability of future payment is considered “likely“, according to the 2023 public accounts of Canada.
“This year’s fall economic statement showed the vast majority of these liabilities — 95% — stem from ‘Indigenous’ {Aboriginal} claims against the Crown.
…
“From the ‘Liberal’ {Party} government’s perspective, the increase means ‘progress’, according to {Sri Lankan immigrant} Crown-‘Indigenous’ Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree.
“I’m not surprised by it“,
he said.
“It is, I think, a part of the reconciliation process that we’ve undertaken. We have been consistent in ensuring that past harms are resolved.”
“The data show the two ‘Indigenous’-governing ministries spent a combined $89.8 million on lawyers last fiscal year, and currently face 1,152 open lawsuits. There were 136 cases resolved between 2014 and now.
“Government-wide liabilities now total more than $2 trillion, but this includes claims and debts where the possibility of future payment is unlikely or unknowable, the accounts say…”
–‘Federal liabilities ‘likely’ owed to Indigenous people grow to $76B under Trudeau’,
Brett Forester, CBC News, Dec. 14, 2023
https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/canada-liabilities-indigenous-legal-claims-1.7058139
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Recent ‘settlements’:
“The ‘First Nations’ Child and Family Services, Jordan’s Principle and Trout Class Settlement Agreement provides $23.3 billion for: children who were removed from their homes under the ‘First Nations’ Child and Family Services Program between April 1, 1991 and March 31, 2022.”
–‘Final settlement agreement on Compensation and Agreement-in-Principle for long-term reform of First Nations Child and Family Services and Jordan’s Principle’,
‘Indigenous’ Services Canada, Mar.20, 2024
https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1646942622080/1646942693297
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“In January {2023}, the federal government settled a class-action lawsuit over the collective harms of residential schools out of court for $2.8 billion. This is the second settlement to compensate survivors of residential schools. The first, in 2021, distributed compensation {$3.2 billion} to individual scholars who attended residential day schools that operated from the 1800s to as late as 2000.”
–‘Federal Court approves plan to distribute $2.8-billion residential school settlement’,
Isaac Phan Nay, National Observer, March 14th 2023
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“In 2019, the Federal Court approved a $1.47-billion settlement agreement as a result of a class-action lawsuit by day school survivors… So far, 148,733 claims have been paid, totalling $5.7 billion, according to Crown ‘Indigenous’ Relations.
“The settlement is also facing a separate legal challenge before the Federal Court of Appeal from survivors seeking to reopen and extend the application deadline, which ended on Jan. 13, 2023.”
–‘Day school settlement has paid out $5.7B in claims. A Supreme Court petition says survivors were shortchanged’,
Olivia Stefanovich, CBC News, Mar. 05, 2024
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/day-school-survivors-supreme-court-1.7132933
See also:
‘Avoiding The Truth’ (June 15, 2022):
Nothing will improve Aboriginal reserve children’s lives until Aboriginals start taking accountability for the rampant alcoholism, drug addiction, child abuse and neglect in their communities:
“Canada announced two agreements totaling $40 billion dollars that will compensate ‘First Nations’ {‘Aboriginal’} children who were taken from their families and put into the child welfare system.”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2022/06/15/avoiding-the-truth/
‘Race-Based Funding On The Increase’ {May23, 2022}:
“Since the election of the ‘Liberal’ {Party} government headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2015, this increase has reached explosive levels, more than doubling in the six fiscal years between Budget 2015 and Budget 2021.”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2022/05/23/race-based-funding-on-the-increase/
‘Taxpayers Paying For New Aboriginal Treaties’ {Nov.10, 2019}:
“B.C. ‘First Nations’ {aboriginal tribes} that have gone into debt with Canada to negotiate modern treaties will soon no longer have to worry about repaying that money. The federal government announced in its 2019 budget that it will forgive all outstanding treaty negotiation ‘loans’. Canada will also reimburse ‘indigenous’ {they mean ‘aboriginal’} governments who are repaying, or have repaid, their loans.”
https://endracebasedlaw.ca/2019/11/10/taxpayers-paying-for-new-aboriginal-treaties/
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