Question Period Note: Litigation - Paddy Cannon

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• We have accepted the decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal and Canada will provide approximately $1.3 million in compensation to the three victims of abuses while they were children in care.

Filed in April 2014, the claim is by three sisters that allege they were removed from the Thunderchild First Nation in 1964 by their father who is non-Indigenous. They allege that their father then placed them in the custody of their paternal grandmother, who lived in Ontario. Following the death of their grandmother, the Plaintiffs were placed in the custody of their paternal aunt, the co-Defendant. Canada was not involved in placing the Plaintiffs with their grandmother nor did Canada decide who should care for them after their grandmother passed away.
The Ontario Superior Court ordered that Canada and the paternal aunt were liable for abuses and compensation flowing therefrom. Canada appealed this ruling, and on May 29, 2025, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the ruling of the Ontario Superior Court.
Canada has advised the parties that it will not seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Canada will pay the judgement of the Court of Appeal which is approximately $1.3 million, to the plaintiffs.

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