In a ruling blocking the creation of detailed residential school reports on which institutions faced the most abuse claims, an Ontario judge said history of Holocaust wouldn't change by knowing which concentration camp was worse -- "Auschwitz or Treblinka."

In a ruling that sided with Canada, Justice Perell said "truth and reconciliation" would not be advanced by "identifying which school was the worst ... or ranking schools in the order of which school had more student-on-student sexual assaults than staff sexual assaults."

Canada opposed the creation of the detailed statistical reports drawn from a database that contains nearly two decades of over 38,000 abuse compensation claims.

These detailed reports would break down compensation claim statistics on what types of claims each residential school was linked to, their religious affiliation and broad profiles of survivors who filed claims, along with other categories, according to court records.

The reports were to be transferred directly to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation -- which was created as an archive for residential school history. But Canada opposed it and won. The centre is appealing the ruling. https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/court-decision-statistical-reports-residential-school-abuse-1.5579455