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April 25, 2024
Ottawa failing to meet Jordan’s Principle deadlines for First Nations kids’ care most of the time
The policy is supposed to ensure timely access to health care, social services for vulnerable children CBC Indigenous: Indigenous Services Canada is taking longer to respond to urgent requests to get First Nations children access to medical care and social services and it’s putting lives at risk, critics say. Under a program known as Jordan’s Principle, the...
April 5, 2024
First Nations leaders split on strategy amid Jordan’s Principle hearing
Leaders mull negotiation versus litigation as $20B child welfare reform deal remains outstanding CBC Indigenous: As First Nations leaders and the federal government bear down to try to seal a multibillion-dollar deal on child and family services reform, more than money is on the line. Advocate Cindy Blackstock says children’s lives remain at risk due to Ottawa’s...
April 4, 2024
Federal government has no excuse for not meeting Jordan’s Principle standards: Blackstock
APTN News: Cindy Blackstock says the federal government needs to start putting First Nations kids first and meeting its Jordan’s Principle commitments. “I would like to see a lot less focus on what is happening with the bureaucrats and a lot more focus on kids,” the executive director of the First Nations Child and Family...
April 2, 2024
Federal government failing to live up to Jordan’s Principle: Blackstock
Human rights tribunal hearings taking place all week. APTN News: The head of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society says more Indigenous children are dying because of Ottawa’s failure to meet its commitments under Jordan’s Principle. “We want Canada to abide by its legal order so that kids stop being hurt and kids...
January 4, 2024
Ottawa is supposed to process First Nations families’ child services requests within days. Sometimes it makes them wait a year
First Nations families are waiting for as long as a year to have their applications for child and family services assessed by the federal government — even though Ottawa has been ordered to process them within 12 to 48 hours. Toronto Star: First Nations families are waiting for as long as a year to have...
June 28, 2023
Backlog at federal Indigenous children’s program leaves families to shoulder heavy bills
Families, service providers take drastic measures to stay afloat under Jordan’s Principle CBC News: First Nations families and service providers are covering hundreds of thousands of dollars in health-related bills while they wait for an overwhelmed federal program to reimburse them, CBC News has learned. Indigenous Services Canada says it is facing unprecedented demand under the...
January 1, 2023
Denial rates of services and supports for First Nations children varied drastically by region during the pandemic
The Globe and Mail: Marsha McLeod In 2007, just before the House of Commons rose for its Christmas break, parliamentarians voted unanimously to adopt a principle meant to put the needs of First Nations children ahead of bureaucratic government conveniences. Jean Crowder, the then-MP who brought forward the motion to adopt Jordan’s Principle, warned her parliamentary colleagues...
November 5, 2020
Jordan’s Principle Expenses
Oakville Beaver – This past June, Jordan’s Principle abruptly cut funding for his daughter’s treatment, saying it was “too expensive,” said the girl’s father, Stephen Paquette, Indigenous Knowledge Guide for the Halton District School Board. Despite repeated requests, Indigenous Services Canada has so far refused to provide any budgetary guidance so he can find less...