Indigenous residential school records can be destroyed, Supreme Court rules (CBC)

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that thousands of sensitive records pertaining to abuses at Indigenous residential schools are confidential and should be destroyed.

In a unanimous decision released Friday, the top court said the collection of accounts for independent compensation assessment was meant to be a "confidential and private process" and that "claimants and alleged perpetrators relied on the confidentiality assurance."

Indigenous residential school records can be destroyed, Supreme Court rules (CBC)

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