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I'm very against what happened today.  Children should always go to the best home.  That home should be determined by safety before anything else.  In the 60s, many aboriginal homes were broken (many still are).  They weren't places for children. 

That doesn't mean that aboriginal children should never be placed in aboriginal homes.  They should not however, be placed in homes just because they are aboriginal, when there are other questionable aspects.  We owe it to the children to keep them safe.

I'm very for what happened today (yesterday, actually). I think you may have conflated another issue with the issue that was at court. This case was not about harm being caused to subjects of the scoop. This case was about the Federal government failing in two areas. First: Failure to consult with the bands when they allowed provincial Child Services to remove children from the band. Second: Then failing to inform the adoptive/foster family or scooped child what services and information that child and adoptive/foster parent were entitled too. It wasn't up to the provincial functionaries to provide that information but the Federal Government.
 That the government failed on both those things is what led to the harms suffered by the subjects of the scoop.

As the learned Judge concludes:
"For the reasons set out above, when Canada entered into the 1965 Agreement and
over the years of the class period, Canada had a common law duty of care to take
reasonable steps to prevent on-reserve Indian children in Ontario, who had been placed in
the care of non-aboriginal foster or adoptive parents, from losing their aboriginal identity.
Canada breached this common law duty of care."
(http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/60s-scoop-ruling-aboriginal-1.3981771)

That the government entered into an agreement to allow provincial Child Services to take children away isn't the issue.