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Principle) discriminates against 163,000 First Nations children on the grounds of race and national and ethnic origin. The Tribunal ordered the government of Canada to cease its discriminatory conduct and the Tribunal maintained jurisdiction over the matter. On April 26, 2016 the Tribunal issued a second order (2016 CHRT 10) expressing concern regarding Canada's implementation of the January decision and ordering Canada to confirm they have applied Jordan's Principle to all children and all jurisdictional disputes by May 10, 2016. The Tribunal issued two further non-compliance orders against Canada in September 2016 (2016 CHRT 16) and May of 2017 (2017 CHRT 14). The latter non-compliance order dealt with Jordan's Principle and the Tribunal found Canada had not fully complied with previous orders and linked Canada's non-compliance to the deaths of two 12 year old girls. On February 1, 2018 (2018 CHRT 4), the Tribunal issued a further non-compliance order on child and family service funding requiring the federal government to fund prevention, intake and assessment, legal, building repairs, mental health (Ontario), and band representatives (Ontario) at their actual cost. In February 2019, the Tribunal issued an interim order (2019 CHRT 7)requiring Canada to apply Jordan's Principle to First Nations children in urgent circumstances who do not have Indian Status. The Tribunal has taken under reserve a final determination of the definition of First Nations child for Jordan's Principle and compensation for victims of Canada's discriminatory conduct.
289:. In its ruling released in April 2012, the Federal Court overturned the decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal suggesting the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal erred in law as no comparator group is required for a discrimination analysis and that the hearing was unfair as Tribunal Chair Chotalia reviewed thousands of pages of extraneous material in arriving at her decision. The Federal Court ruling cleared the way for a differently constituted panel at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to conduct a full hearing on the discrimination matter.
346:'s Economic Justice fellowship (2009), National Aboriginal Achievement Awards (2011), Amnesty International Person of Conscience Award (2017), and the Janusz Korzak Medal for children's rights advocacy. She has also received 20 honorary doctorate degrees including the Doctor of Iyiniw Kiskeyihtamowinq Blue Quills First Nations University (2016) Asonamakew (Passing Knowledge on) from Blue Quills University in 2016 and an honorary doctorate from Osgoode Law School in 2017.
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Moushoom, a former child in care, and Maurina Beadle, mother of a child entitled to Jordan's Principle services (Xavier Mouchoom v. Attorney General of Canada, Federal Court of Canada, (T-402-19). The class action has not yet been certified.
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In 2012 the first Have a Heart Day gathering was held at
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