Canada: Are the feds really ‘fighting Indigenous kids in court’? Here’s what we know (Opinion) (Includes video)
Global News – June 16, 2021
Two weeks after the remains of 215 Indigenous children were discovered at the site of a former B.C. residential school, the government is back in court to push back against two Canadian Human Rights Tribunal rulings, including one to compensate Indigenous children who faced discrimination. While opposition politicians and advocates alike have called on the government to drop the legal battle and, as one NDP press release put it, “stop fighting Indigenous kids in court,” the government says the reality of the case is a bit more complicated.
https://globalnews.ca/news/7952457/indigenous-court-family-services-residential-schools-discrimination-human-rights-tribunal/