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Immediately comply with the ruling of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal by providing equitable Support for civil society funding to First Nations child and family services on reserve and ensuring the full and proper implementation of organizations to analyze the Jordan’s Principle to all First Nations children, so they can effectiveness of the strategy. [...] standards of adequacy in social assistance and • Increase the base amount of the CCB and of access and quality in social services and early introduce a more progressive benefi t reduction rate learning and childcare. [...] Th is will improve access to EI in labour markets with chronically high unemployment.16 • Increase the level of maternity and parental leave benefi t, and all special benefi ts, to 70% of employment income and reduce qualifying hours to 300 over the best 12 weeks of the last 12 months of work. [...] First Nations have a unique and special relationship with the Crown and the people of Canada as set out in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and manifested in Treaties, the Constitution Acts of 1867 and 1982, Canadian common law and International law and as outlined in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. [...] We name First Nations and use the term Aboriginal deliberately in order to be consistent with the language used in cited sources and to maintain the 17 specifi city of recommendations and the accuracy of policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/basic-income the data as it is being reported.

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