Recourse For Survivors Who Mistakenly Opt Out

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 14:06

 

 

A community outreach worker says there are safeguards in place if residential school survivors accidentally opt out of the compensation process.

 

Alma Favel-King has been commissioned by the Assembly of First Nations to help educate survivors in Saskatchewan.

 

She has heard the stories that some former students have inadvertently signed opt-out forms after receiving them in the mail.

 

But she says the federal government will send out a confirmation form in the mail at some point to make sure survivors do, in fact, want to opt out.

 

Favel-King says, to her knowledge, only 19 people have signed the opt-out forms.