Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Compensation Fight Continues For Widows
A fight to receive compensation they believe is rightfully theirs continues by Widows on the Warpath.
They have been left out of a $20,000 package offered by Ottawa to military and civilians who worked at -- or lived near Base Gagetown in the sixties.
That is when Agent Orange was tested in the training area.
Spokes-person Judith Saunders Wright tells CHSJ News, they are far from giving up.
Saunders Wright will be at the City Market's Germain Street entrance this morning at nine looking for more signatures with 91 already on the petition.
The widows have been shut out of the compensation package because their spouses passed away prior to the start up program in February of 06.