A survivor of January’s mass shooting that killed four people in La Loche, Sask., says the amount of financial support she receives from the Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) isn’t enough to support living in Saskatoon.
“The little bit of help that we’ve been given to me is like being victimized every day, over and over again,” said Charlene Klyne, a supply and probationary teacher at the school, who was shot, but survived.
“We’ve had to pay for everything for being here; everything’s come out of our pocket, all the expenses of living in Saskatoon.”
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“I don’t see anything at all out of my left eye, my right eye I see shadows,” Klyne said.
“Everything is black and white, my retina’s detaching for the third time, I do not have a lens in that eye, and so I have not seen my family for many days, many months.”
Klyne was joined by Saskatchewan New Democratic Party MLA Buckley Belanger, who said victims of the shooting were not getting the full support that the provincial government had promised in the wake of the incident.
“These families need the full court press on the support mechanisms that they need, we cannot leave them out in the cold,” Belanger said to reporters.
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The province responded by pointing out its pledges to spend millions in additional supports for La Loche, which were detailed in a trip Premier Brad Wall took to the community in August.
As for Klyne’s case, the minister responsible for the WBC said the group will look into her case.
“What we want to do is have a look at it, make sure its sufficient and make sure that she’s accessing everything that she’s possibly entitled to from the WCB,” said Don Morgan.
“We’ll also have somebody from the ministry meet with her to find out whether there’s anything that we can do, that we might have done, had we known that she was there earlier.”
A 17-year-old boy faces multiple murder charges in connection to the shootings.
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