I am a Witness: Tribunal Timeline & Documents

Summary of the cost categories that First Nations Child and Family Service agencies can bill Indigenous Services Canada at actual cost going forward and  retroactive billings back to January 26, 2016. Includes information on Jordan's Principle.

Affidavit of Valerie Gideon, Assistant Deputy Minister of the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch at the Department of Indigenous Services Canada for the January 9, 2019 hearing before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

The Caring Society filed two documents for the Tribunal hearing on January 9, 2019:

• A Notice of Motion regarding the definition of First Nations children;
• An affidavit from Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director of the Caring Society. 

United Nations General Assembly: Draft report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review - Canada

Annex to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) press-release regarding the 167th session in Bogotá. Among the topics discussed: compliance with the CHRT Decisions, Jordan's Principle, and implementing the Spirit Bear Plan. 

Tribunal issues non-compliance order (2018 CHRT 4) against Canada on First Nations child welfare. See below for the order, Caring Society Press Release, and Caring Society Information Sheets - including a child-friendly Information Sheet about the decision just for kids!

Interim Report of the National Advisory Committee on First Nations Child and Family Services Program Reform

For Shiner v. Attorney General of Canada, The Federal Court of Appeal orders the Appeal is set down for hearing commencing at 9:30a.m., on Tuesday, February 27, 2018. 

Caring Society factum: Shiner v. Attorney General of Canada