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.
2015
Tribunal denies Canada's request to exclude documents.
Procedural Diagram: First Nations child welfare human rights case (2007- July 2015)
2014
Closing arguments on Canadian Human Rights Tribunal case.
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Key documents presented by the Caring Society as evidence at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearings.
Key documents presented by the Caring Society as evidence at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearings.
Key documents presented by the Caring Society as evidence at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearings.
Key documents presented by the Caring Society as evidence at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearings.
Key documents presented by the Caring Society as evidence at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal hearings.
CHRT ruling: witnesses who testified prior to feds releasing over 100K of documents that should have been disclosed can testify again
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AANDC statistics on number of days FN children on reserve and in the Yukon spend in care (1981-2012)
2013
MP Linda Duncan (Edmonton—Strathcona, NDP) questions the Government in the House of Commons about equal funding for Aboriginal children in care.
“For the sake of the children, will the government finally grant the money needed to provide comparable care?”
Click here for the full text (Hansard) – begins at line 1500, Watch the video
Assembly of First Nations submit their statement on retaliation.