14-year fight for disability services settled in favour of First Nations children in Manitoba – APTN News
Oct 11, 2024
Human rights and legal challenge succeed
First Nations children living on-reserve in Manitoba are now eligible for provincial disability-related services like home care after a 14-year legal battle was settled.
Previously, children with disabilities on-reserve were restricted from accessing provincial services due to jurisdictional disputes of who should foot the bill – the provincial or federal government.
It was Harriet Sumner-Pruden who, in 2010, filed a complaint with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission on behalf of her then-eight-year-old son Alfred (Dewey) Pruden.
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