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McIntosh: A year later, the Trudeau government still drags its feet on welfare of First Nations children

Published: 30 January 2017

A year ago this week, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released the landmark Caring Society decision, which found that the federal government had discriminated against First Nations children by providing insufficient funding for First Nations child and family services. It also found that the federal funding structure for these services incentivized removing children from their homes, thus perpetuating historical disadvantages against Aboriginal peoples, mainly through the Residential Schools system. 


Op-ed by Anna McIntosh, Law Student

Read more: Ottawa Citizen

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