“I intend to keep all of my promises” Prime Minister Trudeau assured a conference of young workers, some of whom had been protesting his economic policies.

But unless the PM can travel back in time, it’s too late for that.

Trudeau – who’s also Minister for Youth – didn’t make good on a promise to help businesses hire 18-24 year olds in 2016 and 2017. His promise of $200 million this year to train unemployed workers went unfilled. His promise to create 5,000 green youth jobs before April 2017 isn’t happening.

But the Youth Minister’s most disturbing broken promises are to vulnerable Indigenous youths and children.

He broke his promise to First Nations kids – by $800 million – to add $2.6 billion to their inferior and underfunded K-12 education system over the next four years. He promised $50 million a year to help Indigenous youths get to college and university, then gave nothing at all.

And he is failing to provide Indigenous kids with social and health services equal to that provided to any other Canadian child. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s first four “calls to action” – which Trudeau promised to implement completely – were directly aimed at ending this discrimination. But it continues.

Nine months ago, Trudeau even received a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order directing him to end discrimination in social and family services. Still it continues.

Now Charlie Angus, an NDP MP whose riding includes many First Nations communities, has a Commons motion directing Trudeau to comply with the Tribunal order, fully implement Jordan’s Principle and stop fighting families on reserve seeking health services. The vote is this Tuesday.

(Jordan Anderson was a young First Nations boy requiring on-going medical support who lived, for five years, and died in a Winnipeg hospital as lawyers fought over which level of government would pay his home care costs).

In an interview, Angus is intense as he describes government systems designed to block and deny social and health services for kids living on reserve – systems no other Canadian child is subject to.

“Under OHIP (Ontario’s health insurance program), for example, if a doctor recommends an audiology test, the child gets it. What happens on reserve is you need the approval of a bureaucrat,” says Angus. “Well who the hell is a bureaucrat to tell a doctor and a parent it’s not necessary to test a kid for deafness?”

“In non-native communities, if there’s a suicide, they send in a team (to the school) – that’s standard protocol. Here we are two weeks into a suicide crisis in Saskatchewan, we’ve got a Health Minister tweeting about a hotline,” says Angus. “That’s not the coherent, pro-active strategy that is employed everywhere else.”

“The nursing stations haven’t got the medicines,” says Angus. “We’ve got people literally dying in my region from conditions that anywhere else are considered normal, treatable types of illnesses.” Angus notes two reserve community constituents recently died from scarlet fever. That disease is treated with a ten day course of antibiotics.

Remember, Youth Minister Trudeau is spending $4 billion a year on a “middle class” tax cut with maximum benefit for incomes between $90,000 and $200,000. His broken promise to end preferred tax treatment of CEO stock options costs $500 million a year.

In Tribunal hearings, Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, estimated the cost to end racial discrimination in social and family services at about $155 million this year. Angus says government lawyers have never challenged Blackstock’s estimate or provided their own numbers.

There is still time for Trudeau to make the right choice for kids in tomorrow’s vote. But be warned –Canadians are a generally progressive lot. With a wrong vote they will harshly judge this Youth Minister.

Tom Parkin is a former NDP staffer and social democrat media commentator