Expert available: Canada to offer compensation to survivors of Sixties Scoop
UWaterloo expert is available to speak to the media about the federal government’s plan to give financial compensation to survivors of the Sixties Scoop
Lori Campbell — Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre
Lori Campbell is the director of the Waterloo Aboriginal Education Centre(WAEC). The centre is located at St. Paul’s University College, at the University of Waterloo. A goal of WAEC is to educate the public about the treatment of Indigenous people in Canada throughout history, a necessary component of reconciliation.
“The significance of the settlement is that the Ontario Supreme Court recognizes that forcibly removing Indigenous children and adopting them into non-Indigenous families was not OK. The result of the adoptions is loss of language, culture and Indigenous identity,” said Campbell. “I am a survivor of the Sixties Scoop and have spent my entire adult life searching for the rest of my family.”
