Nova Scotia History: News Sources

Immigrants Dept: Ward Branch, the lawyer leading a class action against the province, said the deal represents the largest settlement of its kind in Nova Scotia history, according to The Chronicle Herald. "We re really pleased with the way the government responded once we started the litigation to make it easy for people to get their money back," Branch told Justice John Murphy of Nova Scotia Supreme Court and five years after the Nova Scotia government took control of a problem-plagued immigration program, a court approved a settlement Monday that offers $25 million in compensation to immigrants who say the program failed to deliver what it promised. ALSO SEE P.E.I. s immigration scandal even worse than ours (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.