By Alessia Passafiume THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA- A British Columbia First Nation has taken matters into its own hands after what leaders say has been a lack of commitment from the federal government to help them take full jurisdiction over child and family services. Sts’ailes, a Coast Salish First Nation, has been working with Ottawa for years to implement its own child welfare practices after the government passed a law in 2019 that allowed it to do so. A co-ordination agreement between the nation, Ottawa and B.C. on implementing their own protocols was set to be formalized last week. But the First Nation says the federal government hit the pause button instead of following through, so it has decided to start and fund its own program without the formal go-ahead.

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