Within hours of the passage of 2022, a tentative First Nations child protection agreement would have been finalized, the Globe and Mail has revealed.
The agreement was reached on the last day of negotiations with the parties, including the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and representatives of class action lawsuits related to the protection of indigenous children.
Details have yet to be announced, but a press conference is expected to take place on Tuesday.
Earlier this month, the federal government announced $ 40 billion in compensation for Indigenous children removed from their families since 1990.
About half of this would go to compensation for children and their families, while the other half would go to improve child protection services in Indigenous communities.
The $ 40 billion pledge is linked to class action lawsuits, as well as a legal battle over a finding by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. It would force Ottawa to pay up to $ 40,000 in compensation to every First Nations child unnecessarily placed in foster care due to underfunding of government services since 2006. The ordinance also required payments to parents and adults. -parents.