OTTAWA—The Trudeau government is consciously discriminating against 163,000 children in its delivery of child welfare services on reserves, First Nations advocate Cindy Blackstock said Thursday as a human rights tribunal issued a second compliance order on the issue.
Blackstock — executive director of an organization that together with the Assembly of First Nations spent nine years fighting the federal government over child welfare services — said Canadians need to know that the Trudeau government is not following a legal order.
“It is saying, really, in its actions that the government of Canada is above the law and sadly, that First Nations children are below the law,” Blackstock said.
“And that should no longer be allowed in this country, not after the residential schools.”
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