A Federal Court judge has verbally approved a landmark $23-billion settlement that will see Ottawa compensate more than 300,000 First Nations children and their families over chronic underfunding of on-reserve child-welfare services.
The Federal Court will be asked this week to approve $23 billion in compensation for First Nations children and families who were discriminated against by Ottawa through its chronic underfunding the on-reserve foster care system and other family services.
First Nations chiefs and advocates are hopeful the Federal Court will approve a landmark child-welfare settlement this week, years after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal called the federal government s treatment of First Nations child welfare wilful and reckless.
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