CANADA has announced a US$31.5 billion (RM132 billion) agreement to reform its discriminatory child welfare system and compensate indigenous families who suffered because of it, in what an official called the largest settlement in the country.
The agreements-in-principle include CA$20 billion (RM65 billion) for First Nations children who were removed from their families and caregivers and put into state care, typically schools meant to forcibly assimilate them.
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