Ottawa must resolve First Nations child welfare case: Jody Wilson-Raybould – The Globe and Mail

The Liberal government needs to resolve the First Nations child welfare case playing out in Federal Court and “not put children through this,” former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says.

Ms. Wilson Raybould, who was the first Indigenous justice minister in Canada, said she is “extremely disappointed” in the Trudeau government’s decision to seek a judicial review of findings by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, as well as a stay pending that review.

“We need to, as a country, recognize that Indigenous children have been treated very unfairly,” said the independent MP, who was re-elected on Oct. 21 in her Vancouver riding.

“I would have hoped that it wouldn’t have come to this.”

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