Woodlands Press – Globe and Mail Ex-residents cheer as former B.C. residential school is torn down
David Klein, lawyer for the Woodlands plaintiffs, said many of the residents who lived at the facility before August 1974 are now elderly and need compensation the most. Only eight claims of those eligible have been filed so far, he said. “It really is a human tragedy. It is a shameful position by the government to leave those out of the settlement,” Mr. Klein said.
