The federal government has decided to take the Newfoundland and Labrador residential school survivor’s class-action lawsuit to trial.
Steven Cooper of Ahsltrom, Wright, Oliver and Cooper is one of the lawyers representing the residential school survivors in this province.
He says the federal government has decided not to appeal the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal’s decision to approve the class-action.
The court made the decision to green light the lawsuit back in December.
Cooper says they’re now setting the timelines for the trial.
The trial is tentatively set to begin in the fall of 2013.
The class-action lawsuit aims to get compensation for residential school survivors in this province who were excluded from the federal government’s Canada-wide compensation package.