Quebec’s Misguided Challenge to Federal Indigenous Child Welfare Law

• Main Authors: Metallic, Naiomi, Guay, Christine, Friedland, Hadley
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Schulich Law Scholars 2020
• Subjects: Bill C-92; Quebec Reference; An Act Respecting First Nations; Inuit and Métis Children; Youth and Families; Indigenous; Indian; and Aboriginal Law; Law; Public Law and Legal Theory; Social Welfare Law; First Nations; inuit
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/scholarly_works/495; https://blogs.dal.ca/dlj/2020/01/23/quebecs-misguided-challenge-to-federal-indigenous-child-welfare-law/

Six months after Bill C-92 passed in Parliament and mere weeks before the new law comes into force on January 1, 2020, Québec initiated a reference before its Court of Appeal to challenge the constitutionality of An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, SC 2019, c 24. We believe the reference is unlikely to succeed in quashing the Act but certain to cause delay.