Canadian Human Rights Tribunal rejects $40B First Nations child welfare agreement. Sources say the tribunal's ruling says the deal leaves some children out and does not guarantee the $40,000 in compensation that was ordered in an earlier landmark ruling.
With the tribunal's rejection, it appears Ottawa is headed back to court, continuing a legal battle it has waged since the First Nations Family and Caring Society — with the support of the AFN — filed its human rights complaint in 2007.
Under the agreement, every First Nations child who was forcibly removed from their home and put into the on-reserve child welfare system would get a minimum of $40,000 — or more, depending on the severity of harms they experienced.asked the tribunal to send the deal back to the negotiating table Blackstock, who was not part of the compensation negotiations between the AFN and Ottawa, said the agreementBut the federal government and the AFN disagreed and argued that only children placed in federally-funded placements are eligible for compensation under the tribunal's orders.
A man waves an Every Child Matters flag as First Nations drummers sing and drum during a ceremony to mark the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, at the site of the former St. Mary's Indian Residential School in Mission, B.C., on Fri. Sept. 30, 2022.— $40,000 to each First Nations child and caregiver affected by the on-reserve foster care system and their parents or grandparents, as long as the children weren't taken into care because of abuse.
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