Canada agrees to landmark $31.5 billion settlement in Indigenous child welfare system fight 

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Canada’s government has pledged to award the settlement to families in order to begin to repair the damages by a discriminatory system that has removed tens of thousands of children from their parents over the decades. Reporter Anita Elash has the story.

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