Huronia Regional Centre: Ontario Government

Ontario government: TORONTO - For decades, those who lived at an Ontario institution for the developmentally disabled waited for the province to acknowledge the abuse and neglect they said they endured at the government-run facility. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The $35-million settlement, read out in a Toronto court Tuesday morning just as the trial was set to begin, falls short of the $2 billion the plaintiffs sought. Patricia Seth, a former Huronia Regional Centre resident and plaintiff in the class action proceeding against the Ontario government, is interviewed in Toronto on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit filed against the Ontario government by former residents of an institution for the developmentally disabled. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Galit Rodan Now the province has vowed to formally apologize to thousands of former residents of the Huronia Regional Centre, part of a last-minute settlement in a class-action lawsuit into the allegations. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.