https://anglicanjournal.com/general-synod-hears-lessons-learned-irssa/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:08:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/general-synod-hears-lessons-learned-irssa/#comment-35397 Thu, 10 Sep 2020 20:17:49 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=160106#comment-35397 The Anglican Church of Canada is a signatory to the historic Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. Not everything in the IRSSA has been honoured and there are sections of it that continues to drive harm to Survivors, their families and communities. The IRSSA is legalistic and it was crafted by lawyers for lawyers with Survivors relegated to the “back of the bus.” There are major loopholes within the Agreement that further injures the Survivors. Let’s ask a basic question. Why is it that the government continues to fight Survivors in the courts under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement: i.e. IAP hearing records and Ste. Anne’s Residential Schools? The ACC as a signatory to IRSSA must call for the presiding courts to order a full, independent legal review of the Agreement before it sunsets forever. Not to do so, will only drive a further wedge between the IRSSA signatories and Survivors who live at the ground level. I urge the ACC to side with the Indian Residential Schools Survivors in calling for a review of the country’s largest historic settlement agreement of its kind.
Meegwetch
Garnet Angeconeb C.M.
Residential School Survivor

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