Utoo Radio with Other News Sources - February 14, 2025 - Six Assembly of First Nations regional chiefs have accused their national leader, Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, of causing division on child-welfare reform, suggesting she may be too close to the Canadian government.
The blowback comes after Woodhouse Nepinak wrote to Cindy Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, asking how the society plans to improve on a $47.8-billion federal offer to overhaul the system, which the chiefs rejected last fall.
The assembly's executive committee accused Woodhouse Nepinak of letting Canada off the hook, while the regional chiefs argued that it is Canada — not the Caring Society — that must be held accountable.
