Feds violating AG directive in fight over First Nations’ child welfare ruling, say Indigenous law experts

Case should have been settled by now, says former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould.

Former justice minister and attorney general of Canada Jody Wilson-Raybould, pictured Feb. 27, 2019, quit the cabinet amid the SNC-Lavalin scandal. The federal government has been fighting a ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that said it must compensate Indigenous children who were removed from their homes by under-funded child welfare agencies on reserves or in the Yukon. Ms. Wilson-Raybould says the case shoudl have been settled by now. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

December 16, 2019

The Liberal government has been breaking its own rules for litigating with Indigenous peoples, say experts in Indigenous law, as it has sought to dodge a ruling to compensate Indigenous children wrongly removed from their families. The government has been fighting a ruling by the Canadian Human Rig...

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