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Date: 20241220

Docket: T-2158-16

Citation: 2024 FC 2060

Ottawa, Ontario, December 20, 2024

PRESENT: Madam Justice McDonald

CLASS PROCEEDING

BETWEEN:

A.B. AND JEAN-PIERRE ROBILLARD

Plaintiffs

and

HIS MAJESTY THE KING

Defendant

ORDER

FURTHER to the hearing of the Motion, on consent, for the certification of this matter as a Class Proceeding and for the approval of the Final Settlement Agreement;

AND in advance of the Reasons for this Order being available simultaneously in both official languages;

THIS COURT ORDERS that:

  1. The Motion to certify this as a Class Proceeding is granted.

  2. The Class is defined as: “All persons who are or who have been enrolled as Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Members at any time from April 17, 1985, and for any duration up to and including the Approval Date, and who assert that they have been subjected to Racial Discrimination and/or Racial Harassment.”

  3. The Final Settlement Agreement dated June 6, 2024, is fair and reasonable and in the best interests of the Class and is approved pursuant to Rule 334.29 of the Federal Courts Rules, SOR/98-106, and shall be implemented in accordance with its terms.

  4. Deloitte LLP is appointed as Claims Administrator.

  5. Payments of honoraria as set out in Article 14 of the Final Settlement Agreement are approved.

  6. Class Counsel legal fees and disbursements are approved and shall be paid in accordance with Article 15 of the Final Settlement Agreement.

  7. There will be no costs of this motion.

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"Ann Marie McDonald"

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Judge

 

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