A Federal Court judge recently set aside a decision made by the Human Rights Tribunal which denied the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) access to hearings concerning allegations of inequitable funding of child welfare services on First Nations reserves. Here’s the decision.
The aboriginal parties (Assembly of First Nations and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society) alleged that the inequitable funding amounted to discrimination on the basis of race and national ethnic origin, contrary to section 5 of the Canadian Human Rights Act, RSC 1985, c H-6.
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