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The federal government has filed what officials bill as a “protective” appeal of a court ruling upholding two orders to compensate Indigenous children placed into provincial foster care systems.

But in a statement released Friday evening, the government says it has agreed to pause litigation of the appeal and will sit down with the parties involved with the goal of reaching a compensation deal by December 2021.

Indigenous-Crown Relations Minister Marc Miller defended the move at a Friday evening news conference, saying they're putting a financial package forward for compensation and move "on something that is so crucial" to not reproduce what could put them back into litigation in three to five years.

Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and David Lametti, the Attorney General of Canada and Minister of Justice, were also in attendance.

A Federal Court ruling upheld two historic decisions from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, which found Ottawa had discriminated against First Nations children by knowingly underfunding child and family services for those living on reserve.

Litigants in the case say this led to thousands of kids being taken away from their families and enduring abuse and suffering in provincial foster care systems.

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