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
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.
Order from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (2019 CHRT 1) regarding Canada's failure to disclose 90,000 documents.
Response from the Assembly of First Nations regarding the Caring Society's motion for non-status First Nations children and Jordan's Principle.
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.
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