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Former residents alleging decades of abuse at a Manitoba home for people with intellectual disabilities can soon receive compensation, after the provincial court approved a $17 million class-action settlement agreement on Tuesday.

The government denied the allegations in a 2019 statement of defence, saying the centre was run according to the standards of care at the time.

Grammond said the province must also create a memorial at the MDC cemetery, located about three kilometres north of the centre off Highway 240, and “make reasonable efforts to designate it as a site of historical significance.”

“These initiatives will benefit all of the class members, whether or not they make a claim, and will help them to achieve some closure after the traumatizing events they endured at MDC,” she wrote.

In January 2021, the province announced a three-year plan to close the facility’s doors and transition its remaining residents to other supported living arrangements by March 2024.

Weremy, who was the representative plaintiff for the residents, had told CBC News in January 2021 he was happy to hear about its upcoming closure.

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