The Decibel podcast: A social worker’s 14-year fight against discrimination in child services
, has been at the heart of an ongoing battle with the federal government. While working as a social worker in B.C., Blackstock noticed that the child welfare program for First Nations kids living on-reserve received less funding than for kids living off reserve. She, along with the Assembly of First Nations, filed a human rights complaint in 2007.
The tribunal ordered Ottawa to pay up to $40,000 to those affected by this discrimination. But the government has challenged the CHRT order on several occasions – including most recently Cindy Blackstock is on the show to talk about what this most recent development means and where the fight for compensation goes from here.
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