By Stephanie Taylor THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA-The Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday it will not to hear a case of residential school survivors who have fought a years-long battle against Ottawa to release thousands of records. The group of survivors from St. Anne’s residential school in northern Ontario had looked to the country’s highest court after spending the last decade fighting the federal government to hand over documents. The Supreme court did not provide a reason for dismissing the leave to appeal, as is usual. The survivors say the federal government is in breach of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement because it withheld documentation of abuse when deciding upon their compensation. The 2006 agreement between the federal government, residential school survivors, the Assembly of First Nations and churches
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