IRSRC - Resolution Framework

New Resolution Model

Ralph Goodale, Minister responsible for Indian Residential Schools Resolution Canada
"This new ADR process... should be faster and more cost effective. Less adversarial. Safer and more respectful of victims privacy. But still sound and solid in terms of claims validation. And on par with the courts in providing fair and reasonable compensation." (Transcript Friday, December 20, 2002)

"Our holistic approach therefore includes independent counselling and personal support systems for the people moving through the system. And that is either the courts or the ADR."

"A framework to provide the safer, faster, more supportive and cost effective settlement environment that victims, the government, churches and other Canadians have been searching for."

Tanis Fiss, Director Canadian Taxpayers Federation branch
"The resolution framework for residential schools claims will permit the settlement of legitimate claims outside of the courts, saving taxpayers money."

Phil Fontaine, National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
"What I heard today I think is a serious attempt on the part of all concerned to in fact bring forward this – a process that is safe, that is fair, and that will finally bring resolution to this matter."

"Well, my view on the resolution of this matter rests on these points: One, it has to be safe, it has to be fair, and it has to be put aside once and for all, and I see this, as I said earlier, as one more alternative than the ultimate resolution of this matter."

Chief Robert Joseph
"So we think that [having] this system out front and in the open [allows] survivors [to] make their decision based on that grid system. And they’ll appreciate whether or not they think it will be fair to their own people or individual needs."