Feds seek judicial review of human rights ruling that rejected $20-billion settlement as too narrow

By Cristin Schmitz ( November 24, 2022, 11:41 AM EST) -- The federal government has asked for judicial review in Federal Court of a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT) decision last month that declined to endorse a $20-billion final settlement agreement that would compensate individual First Nations children and family caregivers for many years of Ottawa’s discriminatory underfunding of on-reserve child welfare services....