WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at Indian day schools.
A Cree survivor of the federal Indian day school system is asking Canada’s top court to intervene in a multibillion-dollar settlement agreement amid allegations survivors have been shortchanged and retraumatized by the compensation process, CBC News has learned.
Jessie Waldron, 65, fought and lost to the federal government before the Federal Court in 2021 and the Federal Court of Appeal in January 2024 for the right to amend her compensation claim with additional evidence of abuse.
Now she wants the Supreme Court of Canada to step in because she says the government, the claims administrator and the law firm that struck the 2019 settlement agreement on behalf of
