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They want a full investigation to determine whether the land on which the provincial liquor board wants to build an automation centre has human remains.
Quebec's liquor board - the SAQ - has halted excavation work at a warehouse in Montreal after questions were raised about the presence of an informal 'pigsty' cemetery where children's bodies from the 'Duplessis Orphans' era may lay.
Under the settlement announced Monday, a fund of between $9.4 million and $26.9 million will be made available to victims for assaults committed since 1940.
The latest story about the abduction of Ukrainian orphans invites comparisons of child abuse between Russia and Canada.
News of the forcible relocation of children to Russia recalls the unsettled grievances of the now-grown survivors from the Duplessis era.