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.
2008
2007
Assembly of First Nations (AFN) and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (Caring Society) file complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) alleging that Canada is racially discriminating against First Nations children by providing less child welfare funding, and thus benefit, on reserves.
2006
On December 7, 2006 at the AFN Special Chiefs Assembly, the Chiefs-in-Assembly approved the submission of a joint complaint by the AFN and the Caring Society to the Canadian Human Rights Commission regarding the inequitable levels of child welfare funding to First Nations children and families on reserves.