Fontaine et al. v Canada (Attorney General) et al., 2015 SKQB 220
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Fontaine et al. v Canada (Attorney General) et al.,[lower-alpha 1] 2015 SKQB 220, 389 DLR (4th) 749, is a decision of the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan which found that the Government of Canada, the Catholic entities party to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA), and the Corporation of Catholic Entities Party to the IRSSA (CCEPIRSS) had reached "an enforceable settlement of all issues between these parties relating to CCEPIRSS' obligations under the Settlement Agreement."[3]: para. 5 The case became controversial because The Globe and Mail, and subsequently CBC News, claimed that the decision had enabled the Catholic entities to escape one or more of their IRSSA obligations that allegedly had not been met. Canadian Catholic authorities have maintained that all the obligations were met.
Fontaine et al. v Canada (Attorney General) et al., 2015 SKQB 220 | |
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Court | Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan |
Decided | July 16, 2015 (2015-07-16) |
Citation(s) | Fontaine v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SKQB 220, 389 DLR (4th) 749 |
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Judge sitting | Gabrielson J. |
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Enforceable settlement relating to IRSSA obligations of CCEPIRSS and Catholic Entities | |
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The government began an appeal of the judgment, then dropped it; this decision became a further topic of controversy because their reason for not pursuing the appeal remained obscure for years. Documents released under the Access to Information Act in 2022 revealed that the lawyer who argued the case on behalf of the government had expected to lose, and that the government had concluded that an appeal would be unlikely to succeed.