Canadian Human Rights tribunal orders Ottawa to compensate First Nations children

The tribunal order amounts to a major victory for fairness and justice, said AFN National Chief Perry Bellegarde, seen here in July, 2019.More than 54,000 First Nations children could be eligible for compensation after a human-rights tribunal ordered the government to act, says the Assembly of First Nations.

Canada must provide compensation of up to $40,000 to First Nations children who were unnecessarily taken into care on or after Jan. 1, 2006, the tribunal said, adding its orders also cover parents or grandparents and children denied essential services. In response to the tribunal, a spokesperson for Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O’Regan said the federal government will need time to review the order to ensure it receives the full attention it deserves.

The tribunal has affirmed that Canada knew about continuing discrimination and harms to children and failed to act, said Cindy Blackstock, the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society.

globepolitics This is the taxpayers money. Screw the order. The Human Rights Tribunal can take a hike. These people are already given everything tax free. Rise up and denounce all go government.

globepolitics It’s all about the money

globepolitics Sad but why were they taken away in the first place? The reality is that Parents need to be responsible for their children! Maybe we need to focus on spending money and educating and teach All Young Parents how to raise their children!

globepolitics Orders Ottawa! You mean orders taxpayers even themselves!

globepolitics Enough with all this compensation! It’s been overdone! Give the rest of us some money in our pockets so we don’t have to work like slaves! Your children can work like all of them do.

globepolitics Time to shut it down.. they have no authority to order the Canadian Government to do this.

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