National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak gives her opening address at the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly in Montreal, Tuesday, July 9, 2024.
National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak gives her opening address at the Assembly of First Nations annual general assembly in Montreal in July. First Nations chiefs and proxies from across Canada voted down a resolution to fully accept a settlement agreement on long-term reform of First Nations child and family services.
"I'm here to ask the chiefs and proxies who are undecided, who are unsure, to vote down this resolution. No amendments to this resolution will clean up the fact that the first line in the resolution calls for the approval of the amended FSA," said Khelsilem, referring to the final settlement agreement.
"But I do say, let's try and come together and find a common way through this because it's too much money to just wipe off the table and leave to the courts." "There's a choice that you guys have to make today and I hope that you take into consideration the representative plaintiffs stories and our lived experience and put this to an end because each one of us are going through our struggles every day," said Melissa Walterson, one of six representative plaintiffs in the class action.
"I heard leadership say they're the ones on the front lines taking care of their communities ... but I think moving forward chiefs have to have a voice in the final settlement agreement and it's not there in this version," said Gray.
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