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Rights Tribunal: Dorothy Williams and Richard Perry

rights tribunal: The complaint was filed by six members of the Lake Babine Nation in northern B.C. They are Cathy Woodgate, Richard Perry, Dorothy Williams, Ann Tom, Maurice Joseph, and Emma Williams.A media release Monday June 29 by Dorothy Williams, hereditary chief Ronnie West, and counsel Karen Bellenhumeur recalls that the complaint was accepted by the Canadian Human Rights Commission in January 2017, according to Georgia Asian. The release notes that following an investigation, the commission requested that the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hold a hearing. The Mounties' probe found no wrongdoing after several Indigenous residents in the Burns Lake area swore affidavits alleging they experienced or witnessed mistreatment by Furlong while he was working at a missionary school in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The date of the hearing has yet to be determined. The release likewise states that the six complainants have filed a statement of particulars before the tribunal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.