The abusive and paternalistic gaslighting of Indigenous peoples continues. This is purely federal strategy to try and contain mounting liabilities for *ongoing* harms through a hasty final class action settlement that will likely provide less than the $40K tribunal award. https://twitter.com/TerraceStandard/status/1199055538136313856

Even if it includes more children than tribunal order, class actions are deployed against Indigenous peoples primarily to address historic wrongs and to prevent future liabilities from their legacy. It is ill-suited to address an ongoing crisis based on current Crown conduct.

You can look to the 2018 sixties scoop class action as a recent example of what the federal government is looking for. It provides an estimated $25K to a defined class of survivors, and has the certainty of being released of liability for its conduct.

"Government officials were urged two years ago to provide a compensation package to aboriginal people who suffered in residential schools as an attempt to control the potentially explosive costs of lawsuits, an internal document shows" (1998) http://sisis.nativeweb.org/resschool/jul2798civ.html