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‘Racist and colonial’: Canada uses Indian Act to fight tribunal order expanding Jordan’s Principle
First Nations organizations criticized the Canadian government in Federal Court on Thursday for relying on the Indian Act in a bid to overturn a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision that orders Ottawa to consider some non-status First Nations kids eligible for Jordan’s Principle.
For the fourth straight day, Justice Canada lawyer Robert Frater argued the tribunal moved the goalposts on a 14-year-old complaint about discriminatory underfunding…
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