OTTAWA — Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty’s office says she is reviewing a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order for parties involved in a decade-long First Nations child welfare case to resume talks to reform the system after an impasse.

The order comes nine years after the tribunal concluded the federal government discriminated against First Nations children by underfunding the on-reserve child welfare system, following a joint 2007 human rights complaint from the Assembly of First Nations and the Caring Society.

The tribunal said Ottawa’s underfunding was discriminatory because it meant kids living on-reserve were given fewer services than those living off-reserve.

It tasked Canada with reaching an agreement with First Nations to reform the system, and with compensating c

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