The national settlement created a Common Experience Payment for eligible former students, an Independent Assessment Process for claims of serious abuse, funding for commemoration and healing, and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It was a major material and institutional response to Indigenous child removal; many survivors and communities have also emphasized that payments cannot undo family, language and cultural harms.
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Which body was created as part of Canada’s 2007 residential schools settlement?
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The settlement agreement included establishment of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.