Cindy Blackstock, executive director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on September 15 regarding First Nations child welfare. Photo by CP/Sean Kilpatrick
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First Nations Advocates Slam Canada’s ‘Illegal and Immoral’ Child Welfare System
Despite decades of lobbying on the issue, numerous studies, and recommendations by the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, the government has done little to improve the system.