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PRESS RELEASE
Sept. 16, 2011, 1:25 p.m. EDT
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Sep 16, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Implementing the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA) is an important milestone in Canada’s efforts to promote reconciliation with Aboriginal people and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people.
September 19, 2011, marks the deadline to apply for the Common Experience Payment under the IRSSA which is paid to all eligible former students who resided at an Indian Residential School. The Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development encourages eligible former Indian Residential School Students to file their Common Experience Payment (CEP) applications. To date, of the 102,000 applications received, over 99,000 have been processed.
However, applications will be considered for up to one year after September 19, 2011, in situations where former students can establish that they were unable to submit their Common Experience Payment application due to disability, undue hardship or exceptional circumstances.
The IRSSA came into effect on September 19, 2007, following the consensus reached between legal counsel for former students, legal counsel for the Churches, the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit representatives and the Government of Canada to achieve a fair and lasting resolution of the legacy of Indian Residential Schools. In addition to the Common Experience Payment, the IRSSA also calls for measures to support healing, commemorative activities, the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission as well as an Independent Assessment Process.
Separate from the Common Experience Payment, the Independent Assessment Process provides former eligible students with an out-of-court avenue to resolve claims of sexual abuse, serious physical abuse, and other wrongful acts suffered at Indian Residential Schools. While September 19, 2011, marks the deadline for Common Experience Payment applications, the applications for the Independent Assessment Process can be submitted until September 19, 2012.
The Government of Canada continues to focus on an agenda of reconciliation and renewal between Aboriginal people, their families and communities, and all Canadians. Complete statistics on the Common Experience Payment and other aspects of the Indian Residential Schools Agreement can be found on AANDC’s website at: www.aandc.gc.ca .
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Please, if you know anyone who resided at an Indian Residential School, pass on word of the 19 September 2011 deadline for the Common Experience Payment.
Also a reminder that applications can be submitted for the Independent Assessment Process until 19 September 2012. There is a link in the above article to another article in the IAP. The Common Experience Payment is for anyone who attended an aboriginal residential school. The IAP is for former students who suffered sexual or serious physical abuse – it provides compensation on top of the CEP but must be applied for separately.
My god almighty, how much sickness and pain has those dirty evil bastards done to the innocent people . I hope they get locked up and have there balls cut off . People with such power and control to hurt little kids and to act out there lust especially towards little boys . What’s is that organization coming to ? I couldn’t possibly imagaine what else is being hidden and kept from the public . Truly I do hope that the catholic religion crumbles to the ground .
Are you. Able to provide an email to the pope or directly to the vatican ? I would like to forward a letter on what i think of the whole ordeal on the covering up from the bishops and preist of Newfoundland .
The Pope’s email address (benedictxvi@vatican.va) is apparently not functioning right now. Try the Vatican Press Office which some consider to be the official means of contact with the Pope. Here it is: av@pccs.va Put Attention Pope Benedict XVI in the subject line
You can also email or copy Cardinal William Levada, the Prefect (head) of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at: cdf@cfaith.va