Indigenous children in Canada slated to receive billions in compensation after court rejects Trudeau appeal

A Canadian court has paved the way for billions of dollars in compensation to be paid to First Nations children removed from their families and placed into state welfare after a judge on Wednesday dismissed a legal challenge from the federal government.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal had previously ruled that Ottawa “willfully and recklessly” discriminated against Indigenous children living on reserves by failing to properly fund child and family services. The neglect was found to have pushed many of the children into foster care, leading the tribunal in 2019 to order Ottawa to pay about $31,000 to each child removed from home.