Assembly of First Nations delegates endorsed a $23.4-billion revised agreement to compensate victims of the underfunded First Nations child-welfare system on Tuesday, bringing a 16-year legal battle one step closer to an end.
Two days of confidential talks have yielded “substantial progress” toward revising a proposed $20-billion settlement package for victims of the chronically underfunded First Nations child-welfare system on reserves and in the Yukon.
Former AFN national chief Perry Bellegarde has landed a job with the same law firm the AFN hired to lead a class-action lawsuit against the federal government in 2020.
The agreements represent a commitment of the concerned parties to work together to agree on the details to compensate First Nations children and their caregivers who were harmed by Canada’s discriminatory conduct