Jordan's Principle Timeline

January 20, 2012	Read the Attorney General's Memorandum of Fact and Law in Beadle and Pictou Landing First Nation v. Canada
November 23, 2011	Read the Applicants' Memorandum of Fact and Law in Beadle and Pictou Landing First Nation v. Canada
October 19, 2011	INAC and Auditor General of Canada appear before Standing Committee on Public Accounts
October 2011	Read the cross-examination Documents in Beadle and Pictou Landing First Nation v. Canada: Robinson, October 5, 2011 Beadle, October 6, 2011 Pictou, October 6, 2011 Ross, October 18, 2011
June 24, 2011	Pictou Landing First Nation and Maurina Beadle (mom) takes Federal Government to Court to enforce Jordan's Principle (Notice of Application)
June 2011	Auditor General Comments on First Nations child and family services and education
March 9, 2011	The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia rules in Nova Scotia (Community Services) v. Boudreau. The Court rules that people with disabilities ought to be entitled to more the than current Department of Community Services limit ($2,200 per month) for home care services when assistance “reasonably meets” the needs of the individual. Read the decision
February 15, 2011	First Nations Child and Family Caring Society written submission to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women
February 15, 2011	Obtained through Access to Information: INAC appearance before Standing Committee on the Status of Women on February 15, 2011
January 28, 2011	First Nations Child and Family Caring Society submits shadow report to the United Nations Committee on the Child Jordan & Shannen: First Nations children demand that the Canadian Government stop racially discriminating against them. Shadow Report: Canada 3rd and 4th Periodic Report to the UNCRC. January 28, 2011, Submitted by: Cindy Blackstock, PhD., First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
January 18, 2011	Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs Resolution on Jordan's Principle
December 8, 2010	National Chief Shawn Atleo and Cindy Blackstock appear before the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development for study on First Nations child and family services. Read the Caring Society written submission
December 6, 2010	Auditor General of Canada and Auditor General of British Columbia appear before the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development for study on First Nations child and family services.
November 24, 2010	Minister of Indian Affairs and senior INAC staff appear before the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development for study on First Nations child and family services.
November 24, 2010	Obtained through Access to Information: INAC Minister Duncan's appearance before the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs on November 24, 2010
November 2010	Obtained through Access to Information: INAC document on the implementation of Jordan's Principle by province
January 18, 2010	Important document outlining Federal and Provincial approach to Jordan's Principle
October 20, 2009	INAC explains narrowing of Jordan's Principle and Enhanced Funding Model at Aboriginal Affairs Committee
April 2009	Ontario adopts Jordan’s Principle in health and social services.
2009	Canadian Paediatric Society releases report card on Canadian public policy and child and youth health, including a report card on the implementation of Jordan's Principle by provincial and territorial governments: , 2009 Edition
2009	Saskatchewan adopts a very narrow interpretation of Jordan’s Principle that in the view of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada fails to address the impacts of jurisdictional disputes on First Nations children in Saskatchewan across all government services
September 2008	Manitoba adopts a very narrow interpretation of Jordan’s Principle that in the view of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada fails to address the impacts of jurisdictional disputes on First Nations children in Manitoba across all government services. Read more here
May 2008	Auditor General of Canada releases her report confirming that Canada’s funding arrangements for First Nations child and family services are inequitable. The report points to the lack of social and the health services available on-reserve, and called on INAC and Health Canada to resolve jurisdictional disputes regarding funding responsibilities for services to First Nations children
January 24, 2008	Premier Gordon Campbell of the Province of British Columbia endorses Jordan’s Principle across all government services.
2008	Federal officials begin trying to narrow Jordan’s Principle from applying to all federal government services to apply only to children with complex medical needs and multiple service providers, even though there is no language authorizing a narrowing of Jordan’s Principle in Motion 296
December 12, 2007	Member of Parliament Jean Crowder (NDP) tables Private Members Motion 296 (begins at line 1730) in support of Jordan’s Principle. It passes unanimously in the House of Commons
2007 (approximate)	Obtained through Access to Information: Read what Health Canada and INAC internal documents say about Jordan's Principle
2005	The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society releases the Wen: De reports. Drawing on a team of over 20 researchers, the reports provide a holistic and detailed review of the federal government’s First Nations child and family services policy and set out recommendations for improvement. Among the policy recommendations is Jordan’s Principle, a child first principle to resolving jurisdictional disputes impeding First Nations children from accessing government services Read the Wen:de Reports: 1.Wen:de: We are coming to the light of day (2005) 2.Wen:de: The journey continues (2005)