Jordan's Principle Timeline & Documents
Please also check the I am a Witness timeline & documents for additional submissions to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that include Jordan's Principle.
2007
MP Jean Crowder (NDP) tables Motion No. 296 in support of Jordan's Principle. It passes unanimously in the House of Commons. The Motion states, "That, in the opinion of the House, the government should immediately adopt a child first principle, based on Jordan's Principle, to resolve jurisdictional disputes involving the care of First Nations children."
Jordan's father Ernest Anderson and sister Jerlene Anderson were present for the vote, as was Dr. Cindy Blackstock (First Nations Child and Family Caring Society), the Chief of Norway House Cree Nation, the Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs, and members of the community.
2006
On December 7, 2006 at the AFN Special Chiefs Assembly, the Chiefs-in-Assembly approved the submission of a joint complaint by the AFN and the Caring Society to the Canadian Human Rights Commission regarding the inequitable levels of child welfare funding to First Nations children and families on reserves.