KITCHENER, ONTARIO ANTI-CHILDREN’S AID RALLY FEBRUARY 15, 2010 “FAMILY DAY”
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Feb. 15, 2010, Kitchener, Ontario. On a bitter cold day, ostensibly reserved for families, a group of protesters picketed Family and Childrens Service of Waterloo Region. The protestors were demanding public
accountability from an agency that pretends to protect children, but in reality, destroys families.
The protestors had a most remarkable advocate:
Archbishop Dorian Baxter is the Chairman of the National Association for Public and Private Accountability
(N.A.P.P.A.), the Canada Court Watch Program and the
Family Justice Review Committee.
Archbiship Baxter is also the first person in Canadian
legal history to successfully sue a Children's Aid
Society.
"We need to have justice, transparency and accountability from every Childrens Aid Society across Canada," said Baxter who, along with the other protestors, carried placards on the sidewalk along Ardelt Road, in front of the Family and Childrens Services office.
The group was also calling for the passing of 2008 Bill
93, which Archbishop Baxter explained would allow the
Ontario Ombudsmans office to investigate Childrens Aid
Societies.
Linda Plourde was one of the protestors, having
experience with the Catholic Children's Aid Society when
her grandchild was seized from her daughter. Plourde
subsequently self-published a book Protecting Canadian
Children. In this book, she accuses the society of seizing children and putting their lives at risk in foster homes, where she said death occurs regularly.
As Archbishop Baxter has noted: "The cost to the
taxpayers to defend the reprehensible actions of C.A.S.
workers, in my case alone was between one and two million dollars. The fact that social workers who have caused such needless cost and brought such needless pain and suffering continue to work for the Childrens Aid
agencies is clear evidence that the system as it now
stands is utterly broken."
The use of falsified affidavits, retaliatory testimony
and perjury is frequently exploited by CAS in order to
gain custody of children.
This has led to a mass epidemic of children being taken
from their homes, never to be returned due to the amount of false and withheld information by child protection "agents".
This ultimately leads to the adoption of these children,
also by private organizations, which profit directly from
the number of children sold.
The normal unwillingness of agencies to reveal their
failings coupled with exemption from freedom of
information laws leaves an official void on the topic of
deaths in foster care.
Critics have estimated the death rate by gathering data
from other jurisdictions where it is available and
applying the rates to Ontario.
From its 18,000 foster children Ontario can expect 50
deaths a year, ten times the rate in parental care.
A breach of official silence occurred on February 23,
2009 when Ontario's child advocate Irwin Elman, citing a
coroner's report, said that 90 children in the care of
children's aid societies died in a single year.
A few days later the Ontario Association of Children's
Aid Societies distributed a letter to members of
provincial parliament, asserting that the number was
exaggerated because children's aid became involved in 36 cases only after the death of the child. Still, that left
54 deaths in foster care.
Only about one foster death in Ontario makes it into the
press each year.
Catherine Frei organized the rally for Family Day, a day
she said visitors centres (where parents have supervised visits with their children) were closed for the provincial holiday.
Frei had her three year old son seized and put into
foster care 440 days ago. She has since had a battle
with the society to have her son returned, and feels the
system is heavily weighted against parents.
"It's the complete annihilation of the human spirit,"
said Frei, a well-spoken journalism student at Conestoga
College. "They make you feel like you're the unsavouries of society." She also said there is no recourse for parents with complaints and that even review boards where complaints against the society are suppose to be heard before going to court, is not impartial.
BILL 93:
http://bill88.ca/Bill93.pdf
http://bill88.ca/
Canada Court Watch
http://www.canadacourtwatch.com/
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