Exploring Theme: "Jordan's Principle"

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Toronto Star – First Nations children in Ontario are excluded from the provincial governments commitments “that all schools in Ontario will have access to rapid COVID tests and N95 masks for teachers, as well as upgraded masks for students and HEPA filters in each classroom.” Excuses from provincial leaders hold that this is the responsibility...

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...

Manitoba Government – is seeking a judicial review of the Manitoba Human Rights Commission decision to award damages to a First Nations family. “All Manitobans deserve to know what services they can access when they need them, and we believe this ruling confuses rather than clarifies which level of government is responsible for providing health...

CBC – A Manitoba Human Rights Commission decision found a First Nations family was discriminated against “on the basis of their ancestry as Anishinaabe people and the disability of Dewey a teen who wasn’t able to access consistent health care on reserve because of jurisdictional disputes and systemic discrimination…The province maintaining the federal government is...