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. 

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2020

April 9, 2020

ISC provides the full Technical Information Package on Bill C-92, the Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families (the Act). 

April 9, 2020

Chiefs of Ontario submits the following documents to the Tribunal: Chief's of Ontario amended April 14, 2020 written reply submissions re: March 4 AGC submissions, and Book of Authorities.

NAN's submissions regarding Canada's March 4, 2020 submissions and Affidavit of Odi Dashsambuu.

April 9, 2020

First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada submissions to the CHRT include "Written Submission re: Documents and submissions provided by Canada on March 4, 2020 in response to Tribunal's February 20, 2020 information request" and affidavit of Cindy Blackstock.

AFN Response Submissions re: Canada's Program Manuals (in AGC March 4, 2020 submissions)

Submissions of the Canadian Human Rights Commission responding to Canada’s submissions dated March 4, 2020, on documents requested by the Panel.

April 2, 2020

Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer's releases their report  on First Nations Child Welfare: Compensation for Removals

March 16, 2020

Letter from the Tribunal answering questions on eligibility for compensation for First Nations children and parents (2019 CHRT 39). 

March 4, 2020

AG Submissions (plus affidavit of Lorri Warner) responding to CHRT letter from February 20, 2020 

March 2, 2020

Caring Society submits report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, "Canada’s Ongoing Racial Discrimination Against 165,000 First Nations Children and Their Families", for Canada's Fifth and Sixth Periodic Report.

March 2, 2020

NAN's Notice of Motion regarding interim relief: National Remoteness Quotient Table 

February 28, 2020

The Chiefs of Ontario submit the Ontario Special Study, Our Children, Our Future: Transforming Child Welfare for the Well-Being of Children and Families to the Tribunal, including the resolution of the COO Chiefs in Assembly regarding the Ontario Special Study. 

February 21, 2020

Parties make submissions on compensation process to the CHRT pursuant to 2019 CHRT 39