“My work is centred on culturally based equity for First Nations children. For decades, reports have linked colonialism and the dramatic inequalities in public services with a wide array of poor outcomes for First Nations children, youth and families. The challenge is to implement the reports’ recommendations to remedy the inequalities and ensure First Nations children have a fair chance to grow up safely in their families, get a good education, be happy and proud of who they are. . . . Reconciliation means learning from past injustices in a way that changes behaviour and attitudes to prevent the injustices from continuing so that we can raise a generation of First Nations, Métis and Inuit children who do not have to recover from their childhoods and a generation of non-Indigenous children who never have to say they are sorry.”
Cindy Blackstock, Indigenous Children's Rights Advocate, 2022
Macleans January 2018
