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Caring Society files motion after Ottawa says it won’t abide by AFN resolutions on child welfare reform

CBC Indigenous: Canada has told a First Nations child advocate it will not negotiate in line with Assembly of First Nations (AFN) resolutions rejecting a $billion proposal to reform the on-reserve child welfare system, according to a recently released letter.

So if the government won&#;t go back to the table, Cindy Blackstock is going back to court.

In October and December last year, chiefs voted to renegotiate a federal offer to partially settle an year-old complaint at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal over the chronic underfunding of child and family services in their communities.

But according to a letter written by Paul Vickery, legal agent and counsel for the Department of Justice, those resolutions would expand the program in question to off-reserve funding and maintai