has the highest number of on-reserve First Nations children in poverty in the country Child poverty rates in Manitoba at at 76 per cent and the highest indigenous 76 per cent and Saskatchewan at 69 children in poverty off-reserve at 39 per cent. [...] This number is rising and the situation is The lowest is in Quebec among the getting worse. [...] This is still higher than the overall The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Canadian average for child poverty at (CCPA) accurately named report “Shameful 18 per cent and among the worst of Neglect: Indigenous Poverty in Canada” the Organisation for Economic Co- lays out the unequal treatment indigenous operation and Development (OECD) children have faced and continue to face in countries. [...] The recent finding of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal earlier this year that the federal government discriminates against First Nations children on reserve by failing to provide the same level of child welfare services that are provided elsewhere underscores the discriminatory practices. [...] The Sixties Scoop replaced the Residential School and the most contemporary form is the child welfare system.
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