The FSIN says it is denouncing the alleged conduct of the Catholic Church and its legal counsel and their grievance is based on leaked court documents in regards to millions of dollars of funding ear marked for Indian Residential School Survivors. The FSIN says information in a media report indicates the Catholic Church had a long list of deduction claims from the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement spent internally, including: more than $1.8 million in unapproved loans to their own private fundraising company; $2.3 million for administration costs; and $2.7 million to their own lawyers who sat on the Catholic Church board and approved their own billings.

FSIN Chief Bobby Cameron says, “Even after the last Residential School closed in this country, the Catholic Church continues to harm First Nations survivors by its conduct.” Chief Cameron says the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations will explore every legal avenue possible to ensure that the residential school survivors receive the funding and compensation they were promised.