What’s at the “Core of Indianness”? Bill-C92, Labour and Indigenous Social Services (original) (raw)
THE TRUDEAU GOVERNMENT'S June 2019 passage of Bill C-92, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, marked a major victory for Indigenous child welfare advocates in many respects. With the passage of this Act, the federal government has ostensibly removed Indigenous child and family services from the provincial jurisdiction and made a formal commitment to the rights of First Nations to control such services' development and delivery. At the least, this is the aspirational objective.
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FRONT COVER IMAGE BY STAN WILLIAMS www.yellowheadinstitute.org @Yellowhead_ fb.me/yellowheadinstitute Yellowhead Institute generates critical policy perspectives in support of First Nation jurisdiction. The Institute is a First Nation-led research centre based in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario. Privileging First Nation philosophy and rooted in community networks, Yellowhead is focused on policies related to land and governance. The Institute offers critical and accessible resources for communities in their pursuit of self-determination. It also aims to foster education and dialogue on First Nation governance across fields of study, between the University and the wider community, and among Indigenous peoples and Canadians. This report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Canada License. As Cindy Blackstock put it: "Bill C-92 offers Indigenous children a colonial Faustian bargain: Accept the flawed bill in its current state or get nothing." 4
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