I am a Witness: Tribunal Timeline & Documents

The timeline below chronicles the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal case on inequitable funding for First Nations child welfare, which the Tribunal ruled amounts to discrimination.  

View the pre-Tribunal timeline for a history of First Nations child and family services funding leading up the case. 

2011

March 18, 2011
Read the only expert report Canada filed at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal authored by KPMG.
Read the companion report, KPMG review of Wen: De - The Journey Continues
March 16, 2011
Chiefs of Ontario press release on Tribunal Decision
March 15, 2011

AFN news release on tribunal decision read the press release

Office of the Ontario Child and Youth Advocate on CHRT decision to dismiss the FN Child Welfare Tribunal

March 14, 2011
CHRT does minor revisions on decision rendered March 14, 2011
Final version of ruling
March 14, 2011

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Dismisses the Complaint on legal technicality - Caring Society appealing. 

March 7, 8, 2011

APTN argues in Federal Court to televise FN child welfare tribunal. Canada is opposed. 

February 28, 2011

Caring Society files affidavit to complete its mandamus application to Federal Court to order CHRT hearing dates.

February 25, 2011
Caring Society appeals to Federal Court to order the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to set hearing dates given vulnerability of children.
February 15, 2011

Caring Society appears in front of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.

February 7, 2011

Jonathan Tarlton, counsel for Canada, wrote to the Chairperson of the Tribunal to inform her that there was nothing in the letter from the Support Society that would hold her attention.