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The Kamloops residential school’s unmarked graves: What we know about the children’s remains, and Canada’s reaction so far The NDP motion also calls on the government to drop its ongoing “belligerent and litigious” legal battles involving Indigenous communities. One case has the government pitted against survivors of the notorious St. Anne’s residential school in Northeastern Ontario.
At the NDP’s virtual press conference Thursday, Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and a long-time child welfare advocate, said the government was using the issue of jurisdiction as an excuse.“Children are not a jurisdictional question – do the right thing, and if you want to take it up with the provinces or someone else, you can do that later,” she said.
This performative crap from the NDP is so tiring. The idea that compensation should be proportionate to the suffering is a completely reasonable one yet when the PM tries to explain this with one example of how two cases might be different Singh strawman's it and calls it /1
Exactly morally & every case will be killed by judges eventually otherwise only people getting monetized from this are law firms
You have it backwards. The Fed is responding to lawsuits initiated by various first nation groups usually over land claims issues. These groups would have to drop their lawsuits.
globepolitics And will the two-faced leader of the NDP reverse his endorsement of a pipeline rammed through unceded terrain, as well as his endorsement fracking in unceded terrain and a big dam in unceded terrain? Or will he continue to shelter his NDP buddy, Horgan in all of this?
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VenkatAkkiraj This should be a no brainer!
The government of Canada treated the 'first peoples' very well considering that they were slaughtered in other parts of the Americas. They have a lot to be grateful for and should start giving thanks rather than ratcheting up the complaining.
This court case is necessary to make sure that individuals get their rightful entitlement and not some share of a lump sum divided equally regardless of loss. Striving for fairness not just doling out money.
Singh would mail out signed blank cheques 🙄
From what I have seen the legal battles concerning this issue are not the feds trying to avoid compensation for survivors. If anyone has info stating otherwise please feel free to reply.