B.C.’s Supreme Court has approved the settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed by Indigenous foster children who were defrauded of government aid.
Anyone who was in the care of Kelowna-based social worker Robert Riley Saunders will receive between $25,000 and $250,000.
The province could pay out as much as $15 million in the scandal.
In more than a dozen individual lawsuits filed in the lead-up to the agreement, former clients accused Saunders of moving them from stable, loving homes into independent living situations and then using joint bank accounts to take money provided by…
