Canada setting aside C$40 billion to compensate Indigenous children for harm

FILE PHOTO: Mohawk Institute survivor John Elliot walks towards the residential school as a search of 500 acres for unmarked graves began at the former church-run, government-funded Indian Residential School, the Mohawk Institute, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada November 9, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is setting aside C$40 billion ($31.2 billion) to compensate Indigenous children and families in foster care for suffering discrimination, and will start paying out once a protracted lawsuit is settled, officials said on Monday.

The compensation decision affects some 55,000 children.