The Quebec authorities is transferring forward with plans to redistribute $39 million to these impacted by the 2013 rail catastrophe in Lac-Mégantic, Que., that killed 47 individuals.
About $20 million will go on to victims acknowledged throughout the authorized proceedings towards Montreal, Maine & Atlantic railway.
That quantity will likely be deducted with out authorized charges and distributed by the top of the 12 months.
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The opposite $19 million will likely be reserved to fund initiatives by residents of the Lac-Mégantic area.
In June, the Quebec Superior Courtroom dominated that the federal government might redistribute because it noticed match the cash it obtained in reference to chapter proceedings involving the railway.
The Courtroom of Attraction refused to listen to an enchantment of that judgment and the time restrict to use to the Supreme Courtroom of Canada has elapsed.
Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette stated at the moment in an announcement the federal government’s precedence has all the time been to behave within the best curiosity of the victims of the July 6, 2013, rail tragedy.
“The redistribution of those sums goals to start with to do them justice, but in addition to permit this hard-hit neighborhood to proceed rebuilding,” he stated.
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