Cindy Blackstock is a member of the Gitxsan First Nation, has over 30 years of experience working in First Nations child welfare, Indigenous children’s rights and child engagement. She is a Professor at the McGill University School of Social Work, Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, and a Broadbent Institute Policy Fellow.
The federal government’s distorted version of reconciliation is incompatible with the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and domestic and international human rights law.
