CBC News
An Ontario judge has ruled in favour of survivors of the Sixties Scoop, but a First Nations man in Thunder Bay, Ont., says that should be just the beginning.
On Tuesday, a judge ruled that Canada failed to take reasonable steps to prevent thousands of on-reserve children who were placed with non-Indigenous families from losing their Indigenous heritage during the Sixties Scoop.
The ruling in the long-running and bitterly fought class action paves the way for an assessment of damages the government would have to pay.
"Like the residential schools settlement, there has to be some sort of recommendations. There's definitely more work to be done," said William Campbell, one of the more than 16,000 Indigenous people across the province who were scooped up by child welfare agencies in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.
"I don't want it to end at, 'OK, here's your money, see you later.' It can't be that."
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