A national Catholic Church reconciliation fund is one-third of the way to its $30-million target.
One church-appointed survivor overseeing the Indigenous Reconciliation Fund said it’s a good start, but other survivors said the church doesn’t appear to be making a serious effort.
” ‘We’ll get there when we get there,’ they might as well say,” survivor Barb Badger said. “If you keep quiet and don’t pursue it, then they’re going to take their time.”
In 2021, CBC News published a series of stories that raised questions about the church’s claim it honoured the $79-million agreement to compensate survivors.
Following the stories, Canada’s bishops issued an apology. They also created the reconciliation fund and
