All 30 dioceses in the Anglican Church of Canada have now ratified an agreement to contribute $17 million to compensate native peoples for abuse they suffered in the residential school system

Christian Century, March 8, 2003

* All 30 dioceses in the Anglican Church of Canada have now ratified an agreement to contribute $17 million to compensate native peoples for abuse they suffered in the residential school system. In votes held across the country in recent months, every Anglican diocese accepted a formula that will see the Anglican Church pay 30 percent of compensation to the schools' sex-assault victims, with the federal government paying 70 percent.

The Anglican Church of Canada--which ran 26 of the country's 80 boarding schools, most of which were in western Canada--is the first denomination in the country to go so far to heal the wounds caused by the defunct schools, which the federal government started in the 1850s to integrate indigenous people into white culture. The agreement was intended to move litigation over residential schools out of the courts and into a form of alternate dispute resolution.