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
The Caring Society submits the report Canada knows better and is not doing better to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights working group. The document evidences discrimination in child welfare services on reserve and in the Yukon.
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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