Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 3
Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Canada"
Updates on this page: 17
December 17, 2023
Canada’s December 17 2023 Letter to Tribunal re: Caring Society Notice of Motion on Jordan’s Principle
NationTalk: December 18, 2023 December 17, 2023 Judy DuboisRegistry OfficerCanadian Human Rights Tribunal160 Elgin Street, 11th FloorOttawa, ON K1A 1J4 Dear Ms. Dubois: Re: First Nations Child and Family Caring Society et al v Attorney General of Canada, Tribunal File: T1340/7008 Response of the Attorney General of Canada Please bring this correspondence to the attention...
May 27, 2023
‘I feel like I’m not behind’: Indigenous students in Manitoba embrace Jordan’s Principle supports
Growing co-ordinator program tackles education achievement gaps for Indigenous kids Illeanna Knott is preparing to graduate from high school next month. The 17-year-old loves to draw and hopes to pursue a career in the arts after she finishes at her school in Brandon. For the first half of the school year, the teen juggled extracurricular activities...
January 4, 2022
Agreements-in-Principle
Government of Canada – Agreements-in-Principle have been reached on a global resolution related to compensation for those harmed by discriminatory underfunding of First Nations child and family services and to achieve long-term reform of the First Nations Child and Family Services program and Jordan’s Principle, to ensure that no child faces discrimination again. First Agreements-in-Principle...
June 4, 2021
Federal Government puts restrictions on certifying claims filed from 1991 to 2007
APTN – The federal government had “conditioned its consent” and would only certify the claims if the Jordan’s Principle victims from between 1991 and 2007 were removed. Ottawa plans to fight in court against these families because their claims date to before 2007, arguing Canada isn’t legally liable for their suffering because Jordan’s Principle didn’t...
March 12, 2021
Federal government judicial reviews on compensation and definitions for Jordan’s Principle
The federal government filed its written submissions to the federal court on its application for judicial reviews on the issues of compensation and the definition of a First Nation’s child for the purposes of Jordan’s Principle eligibility. On the issue of compensation, the September 2019 ruling demonstrates “an overreach of jurisdiction which fails to adequately advance fair,...
December 22, 2020
Expanded eligibility under Jordan’s Principle
NationTalk – Announced expanded eligibility under Jordan’s Principle to children who are recognized as members by their nation regardless of where they live in Canada on an ongoing basis. This work is as a direct response to the July and November 2020 CHRT orders regarding Jordan’s Principle eligibility, which Canada has been fully implementing since November...
September 4, 2020
Federal Government certifies claims for Moushoom class-action lawsuit
Canadian Press – The federal government has agreed to certify the claims put forward by the Assembly of First Nations and the Moushoom class counsel in their class-action lawsuit from Feb. 12, 2020 and enter into mediation to reach a negotiated settlement for damages and justice for the thousands of First Nations children and families that...
June 1, 2020
CHRT clarification on compensation definitions
The latest ruling provides clarification on the following definitions related to compensation regarding Jordan’s Principle: essential service, service gap, and unreasonable delay. The Tribunal upheld several issues related to the definitions that the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) put forward, including that a service did not need to be requested to be considered “essential,” and that...
April 16, 2020
CHRT clarity on Jordan’s Principle
CHRT provides further clarity on compensation for First Nations children unnecessarily apprehended or denied essential Jordan’s Principal services. The Tribunal agreed with the AFN’s – and FNCFCS – submission that: victims should be able to access compensation at the age of territorial or provincial majority; that compensation should be available to children who entered care...
June 20, 2019
Bill C-92 passes in House of Commons
Bill C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families” passed in House of Commons. “The goal with this legislation is to apply laws, policies and values to systems designed and implemented by First Nations for First Nations with the focus on providing every opportunity for our children to grow up...
March 19, 2019
Budget 2019-20
Budget 2019-20 pledges $1.2 billion over three years — $404 million per year beginning in 2019-2020 — to develop a long-term approach for services for First Nations children....
February 9, 2018
Jordan’s Principle Call Centre
Indigenous Services Canada has opened a new Call Centre to help First Nations children get services and supports under the child-first jurisdictional policy known as Jordan’s Principle. The centre will provide families with direct access to agents who will start the intake process and connect them to the Jordan’s Principle representative in their area. The...
November 30, 2017
Withdrawal of judicial review
Federal government is withdrawing its application for judicial review of two aspects of the ruling that the Government if Canada was seeking to set aside by the Federal Court: requests for services must be processed within 12 to 48 hours, and must be processed without case conferencing. ...
December 16, 2016
Notice to Federal Government of failure to comply
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society (FNCFCS) filed a motion asking the tribunal to find the federal government guilty of failing to comply with the tribunal’s orders regarding Jordan’s Principle, or, providing indigenous kids living on reserve with the same essential services as non-indigenous children....
October 27, 2016
Federal government defines Jordan’s Principle services
Government position is that great proportion of these children are receiving support for respite care, and funding has also been provided for supports such as: specialized medical equipment and supplies; medical transportation; specialized day programs; and addiction treatment programs. Our government has also committed to enhancing service coordination and to working with our provincial and...
June 10, 2016
F/P/T Governments commitment to Reconciliation
Federal, provincial and territorial Ministers responsible for Aboriginal Affairs, and the leaders of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), Métis National Council (MNC), Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), Indigenous Peoples’ Assembly of Canada (IPAC) and Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) met together and confirmed a new approach in support of improving outcomes for Indigenous peoples...
December 12, 2007
Jordan’s principle receives unanimous consent in House of Commons
Debate took place in the House of Commons on Jordan’s Principle (Private Member’s Motion M-296, 2007) where the bill received unanimous support....
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