A landmark $47.8 billion dollar child welfare reform agreement with Ottawa is in the works today with First Nations chiefs gathering in Calgary.
The deal guideline happened earlier this year in July between Canada, the Chiefs of Ontario, Nishnawbe Aski Nation and the Assembly of First Nations after a nearly twenty-year legal dispute over Canada’s underfunding of on-reserve child welfare services.
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal stated that was discriminatory and assigned Canada to come to an agreement with First Nations to amend the system, along with compensating children who were taken from their families and put in government care.
Chiefs in Ontario voted in support of the agreement last week, but the AFN is set to discuss three resolutions calling for the deal to be struck down or renegotiated.
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