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.
2019
Caring Society letter regarding Congress of Aboriginal Peoples intervention in the case on First Nations child welfare in the interest of the question of non-status First Nations children receiving services under Jordan's Principle.
Chiefs of Ontario respond to Congress of Aboriginal Peoples request to participate in case.
CHRT acknowledges CAP request to intervene in child welfare case.
Caring Society’s submissions on matters related to the definition of “all First Nations children” for the purposes of implementing the Panel’s orders regarding Jordan’s Principle.
Additional Caring Society submissions on:
- Retention of jurisdiction by the Tribunal
- Major capital
- Reallocation policy FNCFS Agency funding agreements
- Timelines for Consultation Committee work on ISC training
- ISC performance evaluation
- Jordan’s Principle Appeals
- FNCFS Program appeals, Jordan’s Principle compliance/accountability
- The baseline study for the needs of First Nations Children (ACE Model).
Caring Society also submits Motion Record and Book of Authorities.
Canada’s response to the Committee’s 2012 Concluding Observations on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2006 Concluding Observations on the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, and 2012 Concluding Observations on the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Includes Canada's response to Jordan's Principle.
Submissions from Amnesty International regarding the matter of including non-status First Nations children in Jordan's Principle.
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) request to participate in the case on First Nations child welfare in the interest of supporting non-status children receiving services under Jordan's Principle.
Submissions from Amnesty International regarding the matter of including non-status First Nations children in Jordan's Principle.
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) request to participate in the case on First Nations child welfare in the interest of supporting non-status children receiving services under Jordan's Principle.
The Respondent's submissions to the CHRT regarding capital.
Terms and Conditions for Indigenous Services Canada's Child and Family Services and Family Violence programs
Terms and Conditions for Indigenous Services Canada's Child and Family Services and Family Violence programs
For Indigenous kids' welfare, our government knows better; it just needs to do better. News article looking at how the over-representation of Indigenous child in child welfare care is a problem with a solution.
Response from the Assembly of First Nations regarding the Caring Society's motion for non-status First Nations children and Jordan's Principle.
Order from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (2019 CHRT 1) regarding Canada's failure to disclose 90,000 documents.
Affidavit of Doreen Navarro, legal assistant at Conway Baxter Wilson LLP/s.r.l. for the January 9, 2019 hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Summary of the cost categories that First Nations Child and Family Service agencies can bill Indigenous Services Canada at actual cost going forward and retroactive billings back to January 26, 2016. Includes information on Jordan's Principle.
Summary of the cost categories that First Nations Child and Family Service agencies can bill Indigenous Services Canada at actual cost going forward and retroactive billings back to January 26, 2016. Includes information on Jordan's Principle.
2018
Affidavit of Valerie Gideon, Assistant Deputy Minister of the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch at the Department of Indigenous Services Canada for the January 9, 2019 hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
The Caring Society filed two documents for the Tribunal hearing on January 9, 2019:
- A Notice of Motion regarding the definition of First Nations children;
- An affidavit from Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director of the Caring Society.
United Nations General Assembly: Draft report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review - Canada
Tribunal issues non-compliance order (2018 CHRT 4) against Canada on First Nations child welfare. See below for the order, Caring Society Press Release, and Caring Society Information Sheets - including a child-friendly Information Sheet about the decision just for kids!
Tribunal issues non-compliance order (2018 CHRT 4) against Canada on First Nations child welfare. See below for the order, Caring Society Press Release, and Caring Society Information Sheets - including a child-friendly Information Sheet about the decision just for kids!
Tribunal issues non-compliance order (2018 CHRT 4) against Canada on First Nations child welfare. See below for the order, Caring Society Press Release, and Caring Society Information Sheets - including a child-friendly Information Sheet about the decision just for kids!
Interim Report of the National Advisory Committee on First Nations Child and Family Services Program Reform
2017
For Shiner v. Attorney General of Canada, The Federal Court of Appeal orders the Appeal is set down for hearing commencing at 9:30a.m., on Tuesday, February 27, 2018.
Caring Society factum: Shiner v. Attorney General of Canada
Amended order concerning Jordan's Principle. See also 2017 CHRT 14.
Amended order concerning Jordan's Principle. See also 2017 CHRT 14.