A $31.5B settlement over treatment of Indigenous children

The federal government, First Nations organizations, and class-action lawyers announced details of two agreements in principle Tuesday that, if ratified, could end a nearly 15-year-old legal battle over the racist underfunding of child welfare services on reserves and in the Yukon.

The deals, worth $40 billion and reached New Year’s Eve in Canada, would respectively spend $20 billion compensating tens of thousands of families victimized over the last three decades and another roughly $20 billion over five years on program reform. The deals are $31.5 billion in USD.

It’s the largest settlement in Canadian history, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller told reporters.

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