Thread by @sunnshiiny

I had a brief exchange with one of the lawyers who works with Cindy Blackstock about the FN Child Welfare CHRT orders.

If you really want to know what this is about, please read the embedded thread.

https://twitter.com/sunnshiiny/status/1437069978381918211

Note that Ms Leveque has not yet responded. I believe she may have presumed I couldn’t accurately interpret legal documents. I’ve read legal decisions for years to research indigenous issues. Kinda learned a few things along the way.

I’m not a lawyer.

But I can read and appreciably understand legal documents just fine. Including constitutional law. Since it very much impacts indigenous peoples rights, freedoms and political agency.

To be an effective advocate, you need to understand how people are being exploited or tricked.

Court orders are the primary tool Child Welfare uses to intervene in families. So if you’re going to advocate as a social worker for a family, it helps to know what legal documents actually say.

And guess what I did to earn money in past decades? I worked as a social worker with both indigenous and non indigenous families with Child Welfare status to keep families together.