Canada allocates US$31 billion for indigenous kids taken from families


Canada is starting to come to terms with the nationwide trauma, following the discovery of more than 1,200 unmarked graves at residential schools. – EPA pic, January 5, 2022.

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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