The class-action lawsuit seeks various damages, restitution and recovery of specific costs on behalf of off-reserve Indigenous children who were taken from their families and placed in non-Indigenous care
The Federal Court of Canada has certified a class-action lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of off-reserve Indigenous children who were taken from their families and placed in non-Indigenous care.
The class seeks various damages, restitution and recovery of specific costs on behalf of the affected children and families. “It is fundamentally wrong that Canada has agreed to compensate on-reserve children while leaving off-reserve children out in the cold,” Bespflug says in a statement issued by law firm Murphy Battista.
Dr. Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, says that compared with the height of the residential school period, three times as many children are in state care today.
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