Canada has its own Epstein-like files |
OTTAWA—Between 2007-08, hearings began for survivors of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. The Independent Assessment Process (IAP) held hearings or heard testimony from survivors, and sometimes there were hearings in every single city and town, in every single province, every day for weeks on end.
The IAP was set up as part of the class-action suit, over 38,000 survivors applied, and almost 90 per cent gave testimony in a hearing along with other records and evidence, according to the IAP’s website.
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There was supposed to be a process that the IAP gave the survivors informed choice if their record would be confidential, or shared with the National Centre Truth and Reconciliation for safekeeping. From a safety and trauma lens, confidentiality is important. Allegedly, there has been a process for survivors to elect to have their records moved to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation—because this does not seem to be well-known by survivors. It is not clear if there was an option that anonymized records could be kept.
In 2017, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation led a court case to demand the records be turned over........