“This is a striking example of a system built on colonial views perpetuating historical harm against Indigenous peoples, and all justified under policy,” reads the ruling, the fifth legal order against the government on the issue.
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.
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.
In strongly worded written comments, Sen. Murray Sinclair said he cannot overstate the importance of immediately complying with legal orders from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
A leading advocate for the welfare of First Nations children and families says she’ll have little faith in the upcoming inquiry on murdered and missing indigenous women unless a funding gap is closed.