P-34.1 - Youth Protection Act

Section 131.4 Disposition versions

2022-04-26

131.4. In determining the interest of an Indigenous child, in addition to the factors listed in the second paragraph of section 3, the following factors must be taken into consideration:

(a)  the culture of the child’s Indigenous community, including the language, customs, traditions and spirituality;

(b)  the child’s relationships with his extended family and members of that community;

(c)  the child’s access to the territory surrounding that community and other places that its members frequent; and

(d)  the sociohistorical traumas of Indigenous people and their socioeconomic conditions.

2022, c. 11, s. 60.