URGENT: Express your support for the House of Commons Motion to ensure CHRT Compliance
Press Release
October 28, 2016
Dear Colleagues, Friends and Supporters:
As you know, the NDP has tabled a motion in the House of Commons to support the full and proper implementation of Jordan’s Principle and the Tribunal decisions on child welfare. Please take action and express your support and encourage others in your circle to do so as well. The vote is on Tuesday night (November 1st) and we want to make sure as many people as possible are there supporting the kids ensuring that their member of Parliament votes in favour of the motion.
Here is the link to express your support for the motion and please feel free to share the link in your networks: www.ndp.ca/first-nations-children
The Liberals also announced a new consultation strategy today with the appointment of Cynthia Wesley-Esquimault and we have also heard INAC is willing to offer agencies funds to send agency data into INAC. These two initiatives were done without consultation with the Caring Society and to our knowledge without consultation with the AFN either. The Caring Society is standing by the consultation process of the National Advisory Committee/Regional Tables with links to each First Nations community and agency. INAC is currently not willing to provide NAC with the information it will need to do the work insisting that NAC only have access to publicly available information. They are also suggesting that there be only three FN reps on NAC versus the practice we are proposing (and has been used in the previous two reviews successfully) of one per region.
We need to ensure: 1) Compliance with the orders 2) full implementation of Jordan’s Principle across all public services and all children without any delays related to the child’s First Nations status and 3) INAC engages with First Nations and CFS agencies as well as the parties to the CHRT to ensure NAC is established and has the resources and support it needs to be successful and in the full spirit of UNDRIP.
You can watch the vote on CPAC on Tuesday!
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