Supreme Court hearing on Indigenous child welfare law will have broad significance, minister, experts agree – Hill Times
March 23, 2022
ITK President Natan Obed says the upcoming ruling will be ‘incredibly important,’ but he hopes ‘we can all agree that this is a cumbersome and adversarial way to uphold Indigenous rights in this country.’
The Supreme Court of Canada will soon weigh the constitutionality of the Trudeau government’s Indigenous family and childcare legislation, a case experts say will prove significant in broadly defining sovereign Indigenous rights in Canada.
