Justice department lawyers have been
accused of withholding documents that show a priest who worked at an
infamous Indian residential school for nearly four decades was a serial
sexual predator even as they persuaded an adjudicator to deny
compensation to a former student who said the priest abused him.
The man, who was a student of St. Anne’s
Indian Residential School in Fort Albany, Ont., is asking Justice Paul
Perell of the Ontario Superior Court to rehear his claim in light of the
evidence, which was not presented at his closed-door hearing in July,
2014, before an adjudicator of the Independent Assessment Process (IAP).
That process was created under the Indian Residential Schools
Settlement Agreement to provide compensation quickly to former students
who were physically or sexually abused at the institutions.
