In Canada, a human rights tribunal has issued a major ruling on the rights of indigenous people, known as First Nations. The ruling says the government has discriminated against First Nations children by providing significantly less funding for child welfare services on reserves. The underfunding of services disproportionately pushed First Nations children into the custody of the government’s child welfare system. For many, this recalls the century-long practice by the Canadian government of forcing First Nations children into boarding schools aimed at stripping them of their indigenous heritage. Cindy Blackstock of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society spoke after Tuesday’s ruling.

Cindy Blackstock: “Don’t you think that the one thing we can get in reconciliation right is raising a generation of First Nations children that don’t have to recover from their childhoods anymore?”