Canada: Federal court upholds Indigenous child compensation order
Al Jazeera
Court upholds decision ordering Canada to compensate Indigenous children discriminated against in provision of services.
A Canadian federal court has upheld a human rights tribunal decision ordering Ottawa to compensate Indigenous children and their families who faced discrimination in the provision of government services, the latest development in a years-long fight by Indigenous rights advocates.
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in 2016 that the federal government had discriminated in the provision of child and family services for Indigenous people, which pushed more Indigenous children into foster care.
According to census data, more than 52 percent of children in foster care in 2016 were Indigenous, while Indigenous children made up only 7.7 percent of the country’s total population.