Nova Scotia History: Settlement Agreement

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. Under the settlement agreement, the province s Office of Immigration is offering 364 immigrants up to $75,000 each in compensation. So far, about 60 per cent of those people have been contacted by Branch s law firm 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. "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. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.