Cindy Blackstock is a member of the Gitxsan First Nation and currently serves as the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and a professor at McGill University.
When it comes to egregious treatment of First Nations children, Canada is a multiple offender beginning with residential schools followed by the Sixties Scoop and their lacklustre response to 10 orders to end what the Tribunal terms “willful and reckless” discrimination in a worst-case scenario.
In January 2016, the Tribunal released its landmark decision substantiating the complaint and ordering Canada to immediately cease its discriminatory conduct. Canada publicly welcomed the decision then did little to nothing, forcing the Tribunal to issue 10 more orders to force the government to begin remedying the discrimination.
The federal government filed its judicial review of the compensation decision on Oct. 4, the national day of remembrance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. I thought about what this meant for families of girls, like Tina Fontaine, who tragically died in care. I also recalled the many Calls for Justice in the MMIWG final report directed at ending the inequalities in public services that contributed Fontaine’s death and the deaths of many others.
Why should taxpayers pay give it a rest
Just another example of Trudeau’s long list of broken promises. How many lies before his lemmings see him for what he really is? 🤴🏿🤡
It’s $400 million!