Feds to introduce co-developed legislation on Indigenous child services in 2019
OTTAWA — The Liberal government plans to introduce federal legislation on Indigenous child and family services in the new year, written in co-operation with Indigenous groups.
Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott says the child welfare system in Canada has taken Indigenous kids from their families for more than a century and that has to end now.
“This is our modern day variation on the legacy of residential schools,” she said Friday.
Most statistics suggest there are more Indigenous kids in foster care today than there were in residential schools when they were at their height.