La plainte de discrimination devant le Tribunal canadien des droits de la personne portant sur les services d’aide à l’enfance aux enfants des Premières Nations et le Principe de Jordan
More First Nations children today are being placed in foster care than the number of students who ever attended residential schools. It is becoming increasingly clear that this problem is caused by inequitable and insufficient federal government funding for child welfare services. In 2007, the First...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:986454181d864044924d630935fd3d98 2023-05-15T16:14:14+02:00 La plainte de discrimination devant le Tribunal canadien des droits de la personne portant sur les services d’aide à l’enfance aux enfants des Premières Nations et le Principe de Jordan Anne Levesque Sarah Clarke Cindy Blackstock 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/986454181d864044924d630935fd3d98 EN FR eng fre Centre Urbanisation Culture Société (UCS) de l'INRS http://journals.openedition.org/efg/1196 https://doaj.org/toc/1708-6310 1708-6310 https://doaj.org/article/986454181d864044924d630935fd3d98 Enfances, Familles, Générations, Vol 25 (2016) First Nations children discrimination human rights Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology GN301-674 The family. Marriage. Woman HQ1-2044 article 2016 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-30T22:56:22Z More First Nations children today are being placed in foster care than the number of students who ever attended residential schools. It is becoming increasingly clear that this problem is caused by inequitable and insufficient federal government funding for child welfare services. In 2007, the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada (the Caring Society) and the Assembly of First Nations filed a complaint concerning two allegations of discrimination. The first allegation concerned a conflict of jurisdiction between the federal and provincial governments that resulted in First Nations children often having to wait to receive vital services or even refused services provided to other children. The second allegation of discrimination concerned the unfair treatment of 163,000 First Nations children in the child welfare system provided on reserves. In both cases, it was alleged that these treatments constituted discriminatory acts prohibited under the Canada Human Rights Act. Over the next six years, the Canadian government spent millions of dollars on numerous unsuccessful attempts to derail the case. The case was nevertheless brought before the Human Rights Tribunal in February 2013; for the first time in Canadian history, the federal government’s liability regarding allegations of discrimination toward First Nations children was examined by a body that could make legally binding decisions and remedial orders. Over the year that followed, the Tribunal heard from over 25 witnesses and examined over 500 evidentiary documents. Internal federal documents that were submitted revealed consistent and systematic discrimination against First Nations children, along with a failure to resolve the problem, even with known solutions at hand. Even while the case was still before the Tribunal, a number of academics and members of First Nations began making parallels between the federal government’s reaction in this case and other cases of discrimination in access to services such as education, policing, health, ... Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Premières Nations Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Canada |
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More First Nations children today are being placed in foster care than the number of students who ever attended residential schools. It is becoming increasingly clear that this problem is caused by inequitable and insufficient federal government funding for child welfare services. In 2007, the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada (the Caring Society) and the Assembly of First Nations filed a complaint concerning two allegations of discrimination. The first allegation concerned a conflict of jurisdiction between the federal and provincial governments that resulted in First Nations children often having to wait to receive vital services or even refused services provided to other children. The second allegation of discrimination concerned the unfair treatment of 163,000 First Nations children in the child welfare system provided on reserves. In both cases, it was alleged that these treatments constituted discriminatory acts prohibited under the Canada Human Rights Act. Over the next six years, the Canadian government spent millions of dollars on numerous unsuccessful attempts to derail the case. The case was nevertheless brought before the Human Rights Tribunal in February 2013; for the first time in Canadian history, the federal government’s liability regarding allegations of discrimination toward First Nations children was examined by a body that could make legally binding decisions and remedial orders. Over the year that followed, the Tribunal heard from over 25 witnesses and examined over 500 evidentiary documents. Internal federal documents that were submitted revealed consistent and systematic discrimination against First Nations children, along with a failure to resolve the problem, even with known solutions at hand. Even while the case was still before the Tribunal, a number of academics and members of First Nations began making parallels between the federal government’s reaction in this case and other cases of discrimination in access to services such as education, policing, health, ... |
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La plainte de discrimination devant le Tribunal canadien des droits de la personne portant sur les services d’aide à l’enfance aux enfants des Premières Nations et le Principe de Jordan |
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