Child Welfare — The Successor Machinery

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The schools closed; the separation continued through the child-welfare system. This entry carries the succession at its levels, each item at its own weight.

The bridge (1951). Section 88 of the revised Indian Act made provincial laws of general application apply on reserves — the door through which provincial child-welfare apprehension entered First Nations life at scale.
The Scoop. The mass removals of the 1960s–80s; the era's corpus estimate of some 20,000 children stands as an estimate, not a registry. "Sixties Scoop" is Patrick Johnston's term (1983).
Kimelman (1985). Judge Edwin Kimelman's No Quiet Place, reviewing Manitoba adoptions — about a quarter of the province's placements out of province, virtually all Indigenous — concluded that "cultural genocide has been taking place in a systematic, routine manner."
The tribunal (2016). 2016 CHRT 2: Canada's First Nations child-welfare funding model discriminated, and "created incentives for its agencies to take First Nations children into care." Compensation of $40,000 followed; the $23.34 billion settlement was approved by the Federal Court in 2023, with Canada's separate $20 billion reform commitment kept apart from it.
The statute (2020–2024). Bill C-92, in force 1 January 2020, affirmed Indigenous jurisdiction over child and family services; the Supreme Court upheld it in whole (2024 SCC 5).
The count (2021). Census 2021: Indigenous children, 7.7% of children under fifteen, were 53.8% of children in foster care (26,680 counted; foster children in private households — the census's scope, printed as it prints it). The trend runs 47.8% (2011) → 51.7% (2016) → 53.8% (2021) — the census taken after Bill C-92 still records the separation at its height.

Record: LAW_ABUSE_ADDICTION_PRISON_2026-10-30.md §5.

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