Column: Canada treats First Nations advocates like criminals

Wednesday, November 16, 2011  

"Why is the federal government spying on Cindy Blackstock?

When does a life-long advocate for aboriginal children become an enemy of the state?

The answer, it would seem, is when you file a human rights complaint accusing your government of willfully underfunding child welfare services to First Nations children on reserves.

Accusing your government, in other words, of racial discrimination.

That’s what Blackstock, as executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, did in 2007.

Since that time, federal officials attended 75 to 100 meetings at which she spoke, then reported back to their bosses."

Get the Story:
Tim Harper: Government spies on advocate for native children (The Toronto Star 11/15)

APTN: Canadian government spies on Native youth advocate (11/15)