Canadian authorities have been found to have “forever discharged” 48 Catholic entities from their obligations to raise $25 million for survivors of Canada’s residential schools, required in the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement, the Canadian Press has found.

A 2015 document recently made public confirmed the concerns of Indigenous leaders about why Ottawa abandoned an appeal of a court decision absolving the Catholic entities of completing their financial obligations.

Catholic Pope Francis recently visited Alberta and apologized to Canada’s Indigenous people on their land for the church’s role in schools where Indigenous children were abused.

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