I am a Witness: Tribunal Timeline & Documents
The timeline below chronicles the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal case on inequitable funding for First Nations child welfare, which the Tribunal ruled amounts to discrimination.
View the pre-Tribunal timeline for a history of First Nations child and family services funding leading up the case.
2020
Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer's releases their report on First Nations Child Welfare: Compensation for Removals
Letter from the Tribunal answering questions on eligibility for compensation for First Nations children and parents (2019 CHRT 39).
AG Submissions (plus affidavit of Lorri Warner) responding to CHRT letter from February 20, 2020
Caring Society submits report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, "Canada’s Ongoing Racial Discrimination Against 165,000 First Nations Children and Their Families", for Canada's Fifth and Sixth Periodic Report.
NAN's Notice of Motion regarding interim relief: National Remoteness Quotient Table
The Chiefs of Ontario submit the Ontario Special Study, Our Children, Our Future: Transforming Child Welfare for the Well-Being of Children and Families to the Tribunal, including the resolution of the COO Chiefs in Assembly regarding the Ontario Special Study.
Parties make submissions on compensation process to the CHRT pursuant to 2019 CHRT 39
Letter from the Tribunal requesting additional documents from Canada
Attorney General submits affidavits of Anne Scotton and François Weldon with respect to NAN's motion on remoteness quotient.
Access to Information (ATIP) documents with Canada's legal fees relating to the case on First Nations child welfare.