Chiefs are in Calgary this week for an Assembly of First Nations gathering where they're set to vote on the deal, but dozens of them have raised concerns about how it will work.
WATCH: First Nations chiefs and their proxies are in Calgary to vote on whether to accept an agreement that would see Indigenous communities take over the delivery of services for Indigenous children in care.The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal said that was discriminatory and tasked Canada with coming to an agreement with First Nations to reform the system, along with compensating children who were torn from their families and put in foster care.
Chiefs are in Calgary this week for an Assembly of First Nations gathering where they are set to vote on the agreement, but dozens of them have raised concerns about how it will work. One representative plaintiff in the class-action for Jordan’s Principle families, Carolyn Buffalo, is a mother from Montana First Nation in Maskwacis, Alta.Speaking through tears, Buffalo says she thinks chiefs will vote down the deal she and others have worked on for years in an attempt to stop Canada’s discrimination against First Nations children, and that kids will be left without protection if it’s rejected.
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