Making money off residential school survivors

“Counsel for Blott [the lawyer whom she dumped from the settlement process] also cautioned the court against adopting a paternalistic approach to IAP claimants in the guise of supervision. That submission may be summarily rejected. The courts supervisory role exists to ensure that the implementation of the settlement is appropriate and in accordance with its objectives. Where a particular vulnerability to unscrupulous or indifferent conduct within the settlement process has been identified, there is nothing paternalistic about ensuring that conduct is eliminated. Protection of the vulnerable from exploitation in a court process designed to remedy past wrongs is very different from paternalism. I categorically reject the suggestion by counsel for Blott that action undertaken to protect the vulnerable would perpetuate paternalistic attitudes towards Canada’s Aboriginal peoples.”