Hajdu’s office wants Alberta government to ‘do a lot more’ on Indigenous child welfare agreements

Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller met with provincial cabinet ministers in Ontario and Alberta to mark agreements to transfer control of child and family welfare services to local First Nations on April 11.

Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu's office says it is "very grateful" the Alberta government came to the table to sign a recent agreement on Indigenous child welfare, but said the relationship on this file has been 'much, much rockier' than with Ontario, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KEVIN PHILIPUPILLAI

April 13, 2023

The federal government is continuing to sign agreements spelling out the transfer of control over child and family services to individual First Nations, even as the Supreme Court prepares a ruling on whether the underlying federal legislation violates provincial jurisdiction...

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