Canada response to March 2023 Tribunal correspondence - Annex A

ANNEX A to Canada’s Response to the CHRT’s Letter of March 13, 2023 ANNEX A: FNCFS LONG-TERM REFORM INITIATIVES AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CHRT ORDERS This Annex details the work of Canada and the Parties to reform the First Nations Child and Family Services (FNCFS) Program to address the adverse impacts of 2016 CHRT 2. [...] • The application of the 1965 Agreement in Ontario In the Agreement-in-Principle, Canada committed to work with the Chiefs of Ontario on an approach to reform the 1965 Agreement and to reach out to the Government of Ontario in line with that approach. [...] o Canada continues to engage with COO and NAN so that reform of the FNCFS Program, as well as the approach to reforming the 1965 Agreement, responds to the priorities and contexts of First Nations in Ontario and to communities that are remote Payment on Actuals 2018 CHRT 4 o In response to 2018 CHRT 4, Canada immediately began to cover the actual costs of prevention, intake and assessment, legal f. [...] o In 2021, the Chiefs of Ontario (COO) and Canada discussed and agreed in the AIP that work would take place on an expedited basis to seek consensus on an approach to reform of the 1965 Agreement and to reach out to the Government of Ontario accordingly. [...] This resulted in the development of Budget-Management Principles (BMP) that went beyond the ruling, which provide guidance to ISC departmental officials in the context of the implementation of the Tribunal’s orders and are applicable to the management of all programs within the Department.