BBC News
October 29, 2021
Canada says it will appeal against a court order to pay billions of dollars to compensate indigenous children who went through the child welfare system.
Last month, a top court upheld a 2016 ruling that the government underfunded First Nations services compared with those for non-indigenous children.
It ordered C$40,000 ($31,350; £23,340) payouts to each child who was in the on-reserve welfare system after 2006.
The case has been a source of tension between tribes and the government.
The government has said it is not opposed to compensation, but that it had issues over the order’s jurisdiction and how the money was to be divided.