Cindy Blackstock has been fighting the federal government on behalf of First Nations children and their families for more than 14 years now. An NDP motion calling on the government to drop its appeal and “cease its belligerent and litigious approach to justice for Indigenous children” passed unanimously this past Monday, with Trudeau and his cabinet abstaining. “We will always work hand-in-hand toward reconciliation.”(The Assembly of First Nations, the Chiefs of Ontario and the Nishnawbe Aski Nation are all, in fact, opposing the government’s judicial review in Federal Court.) The federal government admits it discriminated against First Nations children in how it funded child-welfare services and says those children are owed compensation. “The good news is our case is going to be webcast,” she said of the Federal Court hearings, scheduled for five days starting Monday.

Source: thestar June 14, 2021 09:00 UTC