The First Nations Child and Family Caring Society has refused funding from the federal government because it doesn’t accept donations from funders that harm children.
Canada didn’t pass the society’s “ethical screen” and it has declined $149,000 in funding from Indigenous Affairs said executive director Cindy Blackstock.
“We don’t accept funds from groups that are harming children or who are violating Indigenous rights,” Blackstock told APTN National News Thursday. “Their conduct falls outside of our ethical screen to receive funds from donors.”
Blackstock’s comments come on the one year anniversary of a historical ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that found Canada guilty of discriminating against First Nations children by chronically underfunding programs and services compared to non-Indigenous children.
Since that ruling, the tribunal has issued two non-compliance orders against Indigenous Affairs for failing to meet standards set by the tribunal said Blackstock, who first launched the human rights complaint nearly 10 years ago, along with the Assembly of First Nations.
The tribunal has called for a compliance hearing to be heard in March.
“I am extremely disappointed in this government,” said Blackstock. “They’ve read the decision, so they know the answers are there. They’ve seen a half billion dollars announced for the birthday party (Canada’s 150th birthday). So they know there’s money out there somewhere. There just seems to be a lack of political and bureaucratic will to get the job done.”
The Ontario government is currently holding a consultation on Universal Basic Income Pilot in 3 communities. There are different ways to implement UBI, the best one is to give EVERY CITIZEN enough money to live on, no questions asked. People who don’t need it will make up the difference ehen they pay taxes.
UBI would eliminate means testing *and* poverty stigma. Here’s an example:
The charts in the survey contrast what people on disability get now:
ODSP amount per year (basic needs + max shelter) Single Adult $13,536 Couple with 2 Children $21,852
with what they would get in the Pilot
Estimated basic income amount per year (at 75% LIM) + $500 per month disability add-on
Single Adult $22,989 Couple with 2 Children $39,979
Sounds like expensive pie-in-the-sky stuff, right?
WRONG. UBI costs less ~ maybe 25 billion dollars less ~ than Ontario spends now.
Their idea that Waterloo Region would be a perfect place for a pilot so if you live here, feel free to suggest that WATERLOO REGION should be a Pilot Test Site when you do the survey.
In 1907, Charles Morgan of Broome Station sent this telegram to Henry Prinsep, the Chief Protector of Aborigines for Western Australia, in Perth: “Send cask arsenic exterminate aborigines letter will follow.”
Australia’s program of genocide was based on the official doctrine of terra nullius, in whose name the first people of Australia were slaughtered and subjected to humiliations, depredations, and worse.
As terrible as the Australian genocide was, its very existence has been widely agreed-upon for quite some time – in this regard, the Australians are significantly ahead of Canada, which admitted its own genocide less than a year ago.
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA POSTMASTER-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
20 JUL 07
TELEGRAM from Broome Station Addressed to H. Princep Esq, prot. of aborigines
Send cask arsenic exterminate aborigines letter will follow
