Resolutions passed Friday calls for new negotiation and legal team
The National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the advocacy body’s executive team will meet in coming days to discuss next steps after chiefs voted against a $47.8-billion child welfare reform deal with Canada and approved a new negotiation mandate.
The executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, which helped launch a discrimination case against Canada that lead to the deal, said “that’s an unfortunate characterization of the chiefs taking a look at the agreement with their own experts and own legal staff and making an informed decision that’s best for them.”
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal said that was discriminatory because it meant kids living on reserve were given less services than those living off reserve. Those concerns largely remained when the deal was announced in a closed-door meeting at the AFN’s last gathering, with chiefs questioning how the reforms will work on the ground, and service providers saying their funding levels will be significantly cut which would impact their ability to do their work effectively.
“I want to see a day when we get the discrimination stopped and it doesn’t happen again — and we can get there,” Blackstock said to the assembly Thursday.Woodhouse Nepinak stressed on Wednesday and Thursday that a change in government could throw the reforms into question, while Blackstock highlighted the reforms are required by a legal order, not political will.
“We didn’t have to be here if the process that was used to create the was a meaningful process that meaningfully respected and consulted First Nations, that allowed for meaningful dialogue to improve that agreement.”
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