OTTAWA — The Senate’s human rights committee is launching a study about the coerced sterilization of Indigenous women. The Senate’s time for a study is short with only a few months before Parliament’s work comes to a halt for the federal election. Still senators expect to be able to deliver a short report before the summer and make recommendations for further areas to investigate. The Saskatoon Health Authority publicly apologized in 2017 after Indigenous women came forward to say they were coerced into tubal ligations. A proposed class-action lawsuit was subsequently filed against the province of Saskatchewan, the federal government, regional health authorities, and individual doctors.

Source: National Post March 27, 2019 19:07 UTC