MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canadian Court of Human Rights (TCDH) has rejected on Tuesday the offer of compensation with which the Canadian Government intended to offer 40,000 million Canadian dollars (30,000 million euros) in compensation to indigenous children and their families who were discriminated against by the system child welfare in the country.
The measure of the Canadian Executive, which was announced last year as a way to put an end to open disputes over complaints about the difference in the amounts that the State offered to non-indigenous and aboriginal children, has been rejected because it supposedly left was to some children and did not guarantee compensation of 30,000 euros for each child and caregiver, according to the CBC network.
Specifically, the Canadian Justice has indicated that indigenous children who, after years of protests, have finally been placed in foster homes or in homes not financed by the Government, will be harmed by this assignment, since they are excluded from it. .
In addition, it has also highlighted that some parents and grandparents would receive less than 30,000 euros, since some children and caregivers would have initially refused free assistance from public services under a policy known as the ‘Jordan Principle’.
However, the Canadian government has regretted the decision, which it has described as “disappointing”, as detailed by the Minister of Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu, in statements to the aforementioned chain.
“I think it is disappointing to many First Nations people (as indigenous people are called in Canada) that the TCDH has not fully accepted a First Nations-led, indigenous-designed approach,” Hajdu said.
The leaders of the Assembly of First Nations, who negotiated with the Executive the amount and type of corrections, have also been dissatisfied with the court’s decision.
“This decision is so devastating (…). I do not think that the Canadian Court of Human Rights has considered the great implication that this is going to have,” assured the Manitoba regional head of said assembly, Cindy Woodhouse, as stated reported Global News.
In 2019, the TCDH ordered the Government of Canada to compensate Indigenous children and families after years of discrimination in the child welfare system by failing to adequately fund this program.
