A Friday, September 6, 2019, ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal about Canada's treatment of Indigenous children demands a full investigation of the federal Indigenous-affairs department, says child-welfare advocate Cindy Blackstock.
A First Nations children's advocate says Indigenous kids are still not being treated equally because provinces and territories are shirking their responsibilities.
Canada's Indigenous services minister says Ottawa has fully complied with the orders of a 2016 ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal which said the federal government discriminates against Indigenous children.
Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott is calling for an emergency meeting early next year on Aboriginal child welfare, likening the current state of affairs to Canada's residential school legacy that forcibly removed young people from their culture and families.
In an interview, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada discusses the state of Indigenous child welfare and matters of reconciliation.
The Liberal government is going to Federal Court to seek "clarity" on compliance order issued in May by a quasi-judicial human rights tribunal on the delivery of First Nations child health care.
The death last week of Jenara Roundsky, the third pre-teen member of the Wapekeka First Nation to die by suicide this year, prompted an anguished cry for outside help.
NDP leadership candidate Charlie Angus is promising to find better ways to protect the interests of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children, including by dismantling the Indigenous Affairs Department.
First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde says the Liberal government must end discriminatory practices and increase funding for child welfare services in the upcoming federal budget.