THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER-The federal government says it’s come to a $2.8-billion agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two British Columbia first nations related to the collective harms caused by residential schools. Crown-Indigenous Affairs Minister Marc Miller says the government signed the deal with plaintiffs representing 325 members of the Gottfriedson Band that opted into the suit. The lawsuit originally involved three classes of complainants and focused on harms suffered by students who attended the schools only during the day, but in 2021 all parties agreed to concentrate initial settlement efforts on survivors and their descendants to ensure they’d receive compensation in their lifetimes. Today’s announcement marks the settlement for the band class of plaintiffs. Former shishalh chief Garry Feschuk and former Tk’emlups te Secwepemc chief Shane Gottfriedson

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