Former Timber Bay Students Granted Concession

Former Timber Bay Students Granted Concession

Friday, February 18, 2011 at 13:36

A lawyer appears to have won a concession for former students of the Timber Bay Children’s Home who have been denied compensation.

Michael Swinwood has been organizing the effort to have Timber Bay recognized as a residential school under the national class action settlement of 2007.

He says they have struck an agreement with the federal government that allows the former students to formally apply for the Common Experience Payment, even though they currently don’t qualify the CEP.

Swinwood says it’s because the deadline for CEP applications is coming up in September.

He says former students will be briefed on the developments at a meeting Monday in La Ronge, as well as the latest on their Court of Queen’s Bench challenge of Ottawa’s decision to not include them in the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement.