Here is an an article about human rights abuses in Canada from the child "protection" agencies. The article shows a high percentage of youth in care are First Nations. It is disgusting to see how many youth in care are Native and how long this abuse of human rights has gone on for.
Here is a picture that goes over the percentage of Native kids in care under the age of 14. In my province of Manitoba 87 percent of kids in care are Native. This is like the sixties scoop 2.0 and although the care is decentralized the human rights abuses and what becomes of those affected never changed.
http://www.macleans.ca/first-nations-fighting-foster-care/
The article touches on a few stories of legal kidnappings of First Nations children. Many families have been destroyed by child and family services. The article talks about a mother who was planning on giving birth in secret because hospitals much like public schools in Winnipeg are part of legal kidnapping process. The article is quoted as "She’s eight months pregnant and weeks from now, in the comfort of her home in Winnipeg’s North End, she plans to give birth in secret. Doing so will avoid the sort of alert her last birth triggered, she hopes, and help ensure that her next baby is one Indigenous child who doesn’t disappear into foster care.
Two years ago, Jen was several hours into labour at Women’s Hospital in Winnipeg when she was gripped by the fear that her newborn would be apprehended. Someone had handed her a form demanding answers to a raft of personal questions: where she lived, how much money she made, the state of her mental health and her history of contact with Child and Family Services (CFS). By then the contractions were almost unbearable and Jen, who asked that her full name not be used, no longer felt in control of her own body. The whole scene felt intrusive and wrong—not how this moment was supposed to happen.
A few hours later, she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. But before she was discharged, the nurse, acting under provisions in Manitoba law, called a social worker to ask if Jen should be allowed to leave. In Winnipeg, it’s not uncommon for child apprehensions to take place immediately after hospital births. And Jen had an open file with CFS, which was grounds in itself for the call. In 2013, amid a violent relationship, she’d wound up in a women’s shelter, a stint of homelessness that resulted in her getting a “high-risk parent” designation. One of her seven children had begun harming herself and was placed in care."
Imagine living in a country where you have to give birth in secret because the government steals many children. Often times from good families. I feel bad for this woman but this is the reality of Manitoba yet we have a museum for "human rights." Many former wards of CFS end up homeless in thier lives and even if they escape the streets they are forever painted with the stigma and have to worry about big government taking their kids.
Arlen Dumas grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs is quoted in the article as saying " It’s truly looking more and more like a second generation of residential school."
The article touches on a story of Tamara Malcolm who had her kids stolen from her for 10 years. Here is a picture from her twitter CFS tried to threaten her with a lawsuit for trying to stand up to them. The article talks about when her teenage son ran away from CFS to see his mom and much of what their family had gone through.
The article is quoted as "It was a clear day in July 2015 when Lee, Tamara Malcolm’s oldest son, walked up to her home on the Serpent River First Nation in northern Ontario. Pulsing with joy and relief, he said: “Mom, I made it home.” He hugged her and wouldn’t let go. They walked along the shores of Lake Huron, taking pictures to savour the moment. Tamara had dreamed of this day: “Something that I created came back to me,” she says. But she was afraid that at any moment he would be taken again.
Lee was two years shy of 18 and had run away from foster care in Winnipeg. He and his two younger brothers, who are still in care, were taken from their mother 10 years ago. West Region Child and Family Services supported Lee in Serpent River, Tamara says, and last September he finally aged out of the system.
Tamara knows what it’s like to be apprehended. She remembers being pulled from her mother’s arms by social workers on her fifth birthday. Her three sons were taken from her, she says, over concerns they could face violence at the hands of a family member. But over the years, the Anishinaabe mother has tried to prove herself to the CFS agency in Winnipeg, where she was born and raised. She started a traditional beading business out of an extension on her house in Serpent River, harnessing a craft she originally used to cope with the loss of her sons.
When that wasn’t enough, Tamara, who, like Jen, is from the Ebb and Flow First Nation, started sharing her struggle on Twitter. In September, she posted video of her home to prove how clean, big and safe it is. In response, the agency threatened legal action for publicly sharing the names of her children and, she says, tried to deny her visits. “I won’t be silenced,” she wrote on Twitter. The agency, Tamara believes, is stalling—waiting for her legal fees to become unaffordable."
Tamara had a huge part of her children's lives stolen from her from lies and misconceptions by Child and Family Services. She did not drink or do drugs, she started her own business and she was dedicated to her children yet all those people involved in the process of taking her kids from her played their part in the assault on her family. Wether it was the hospital staff, the CFS workers, their lawyers and judge they all played their part in stealing her kids from her. She missed much of her time raising those children helping them understand who they are and becoming part of their family and community. Yet all those people who have played their part would wash their hands of any wrong doing because they were doing their job.
The article talks about a man named Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce who was a witness to the human rights abuses and evil conditions of the residental schools perpetrated by the government. The article is quoted as " Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce, who now stands as a key witness of the atrocities that occurred in residential schools. For Blackstock, executive director of the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society and the country’s leading champion of Indigenous children’s rights, the man is an inspiration.
But to the Canadian government in the early 1900s, Bryce was less a hero than a bearer of inconvenient truths. In the eyes of Duncan Campbell Scott, the deputy superintendent of Indian Affairs at the time, he was an outright villain. As a medical inspector for the Department of Indian and Interior Affairs, Bryce had documented the poor health conditions in residential schools—attributing the ailments to federal underfunding. In his 1907 Report on the Indian Schools of Manitoba and the North-West Territories, Bryce voiced shock at “a situation so dangerous to health that I was often surprised that the results were not even worse.”
So many children died in residential schools that by the 1920s the Canadian government stopped recording the deaths and began using unmarked graves. “It suffices for us to know, however, that of a total 1,537 pupils reported upon nearly 25 per cent are dead, of one school with an absolutely accurate statement, 69 per cent of ex-pupils are dead, and that everywhere the almost invariable cause of death given is tuberculosis,” Bryce found. The federal government viewed Bryce as a threat to its assimilationist agenda; it stopped funding his research and limited his access to academic circles. In 1921, the government forced him into early retirement, but a year later he released his book The Story of a National Crime: An Appeal for Justice to the Indians of Canada. In it he observed that a “trail of disease and death has gone almost unchecked by any serious efforts on the part of the Department of Indian Affairs.”
Although the death toll percents are not the same and the the placements have become decentralized as the human rights abuses continue daily, the assault on family continues and in one way it got worse as many times as Child and Family Services often seperates brothers and sisters after stealing them from their homes.
In many ways the conditions for these children got worse as the level of propaganda children are exposed to over the last 20 or so years has turned many of the youth into a life of violence and crime as gang culture replaced what might have have been. This has turned communties against communities and many have lost their lives of someone they know because of the gang lifestyle propaganda.
Many people of that time just watched as children in care had terrible things done to them after being stolen from their family. This is still the same as many times staff in group homes just watch as the children degenerate into a life of crime or prostitution. Many staff watch a child that is a victim of sexual exploitation just come and go, day or night without finding out who is exploiting them. Much of the youth are offered little to know help escaping the life of crime by being taught legitimate ways of making more then pocket change.
I wonder what Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce would say if he seen what I did both as a youth in care and as an adult finding abuses in care stories and what has become of those kids and their families.
Everyone involved in this ugly process of filling the ranks of Child and Family Services plays their part what becomes of these kids, their parents and their families. We would do well to find out who these people are and show them what they have done to families. If a child becomes a victim of abuse then they played their part in the abuse of that child.