Canada's $40 Billon Settlement with First Nations Groups Not Binding, Doesn't Change Children's Lives

Canada has tentatively agreed to a $40 billion (Canadian dollars, about $31 billion USD) settlement, to right its discriminatory child welfare system that disproportionately separates Indigenous youth from their families over the past three decades, then chronically underfundes the welfare programs meant to serve them.

The non-binding principal settlement, announced on Tuesday and the largest in Canada's history, will allocate $20 billion in payments to First Nations children who have been unnecessarily removed from their homes April 1, 1991 through March 31, 2022.

The additional $20 billion will go towards reforming the First Nations Child and Family Services program by focusing on prevention. How that actually will play remains unclear.

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