CAS in Canada
Most recent news:
Note:
In June of 2008 I seen on national TV the ombudsman of Ontario state that MP’s were blocking his attempts to monitor and hold accountable the CAS in the province of Ontario, This is criminal obstruction of justice and family rights, and those responsible have to be held acountable! A future, more advanced society, will put these people in jail where they belong as criminals.
I serve notice on these individuals now from “We the people”. This will be retroactive, you will not escape justice.
Hi there members of the Foster Care Council of Canada message board!
I wanted to remind people that we have a list to join for people who want to get involved in bringing changes to the CAS’s by joining them as a member.
The annual membershp fee of your local CAS is about ten bucks normally and you end up with rights as a member to view finances, corporate documents, minutes, to attend meetings etc, to call a meeting of the members, etc.... and if we work together and communicate our experiences with CAS membership amoung ourselves as an Ontario Association of CAS Members, we can learn a lot more and work to bring the CAS’s into a more transparent and accountable way of working.
If you can, please join this free email list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oacasm/ and lets get working together.
Thanks
John Dunn
Executive Director
The Foster Care Council of Canada
http://www.afterfostercare.ca
I am very pleased to regain contact with The Foster Care Council of Canada (Forum).
We have also started promoting our CAS Forums as well. Resources to help others become aware of the situation, and user to user assistance to right a great wrong being done to chiildren and parents, is essential. Children need protection of course, but who’s going to protect our children from the “protectors”?
Fathers For Life has an excellent and well researched series of articles that are up to date, called Brainwashing the Children… A Global Report. The page has many links that are required study for anyone who cares about truth and justice.
by Jill Cohen Walker
May 24, 2006 02:23 PM EST“As the battle for total control over our children escalates, the bastions of social services in almost every nation are working overtime to steal them and turn them into state property. This is a global effort, not just an assault on American children, and no effort is too great to those who want to brainwash the children and make them citizens of the new global order...”
(Link to story, and links to index for all four parts of the report)
There is always hope, this morning I found an active forum on the Arts and Entertainment Network entitled Children’s Aid Society Corruption. The topic started June 5th 2005 and is active today. The forum is run by the TV network and filed under “Investigative Reports.”
At this time (July 2008) many have heard of corruption at the highest levels of the CAS, with directors abusing funding and spending it on themselves…
Unfortunately all too many of the CAS workers and “supervisors” are either too brainwashed or filled with the sense of their own importance to pay much attention to the number of families they needlessly destroy, and they feel untouchable. Add to that a government that is so far from reality they completely ignore the few good Senators and MP’s that do address the situation, and it can be seen that things will only change when people take part more.
Truly we are in a situation of having to ask, “Who will protect our children from the CAS?” The Children’s Aid Society is the biggest threat to children’s safety and well being that there is now. None of us disagree that children have to be protected, but the agency has consistenly proven that leaving this important matter in the hands of poorly trained, immature, power tripping young girls, (in far far too many cases), with no accountability outside of their own organization, will never work.Below is documented cases of children being harmed by stupid policies that continue to take place, from reputable organizations and individuals. When the government grants the CAS rights that have been consistently proven to lead to a dramatic government documented increase in serious harm to children in US states (see below), then there is something seriously amiss.
While there are many disparaging remarks about the United Nations here, it must not be taken as me saying it is in itself an evil or negative organization. There is a need for a collective body, what needs to be watched for is not only deception and an abuse of power, but
the gaining of a power that cannot be taken away by anyone should abuse occur
Along this line it is vital to read Senator Jesse Helms Address to the United Nations
(Note: No Congressman of the United States has ever spoken at the Security Council of the United Nations before this time)
Our rights and freedoms, including the right to raise and protect our children are being taken away. We are not overreacting. The media is turning a blind eye to what’s happening, and the Canadian public is not being informed. A better word perhaps would be deceived.
For some strange reason, our elected officials have decided our rights are something granted to us, and can therefore be taken away. Our rights are inalienable, and not removable at government whims. It is about time they understood this.
Problems with Children’s Aid Society workers are symptomatic of an ideology that is anti-family, and typical of legislation being passed in many countries leading to a total loss of ALL freedoms. There is a definite plan and agenda to this, and people should be alarmed. In the next few years it may be too late to stop, and we will be powerless in a totalitarian One World Government.
Having had personal experience with London Children’s Aid Society (CAS), Kitchener Children’s Aid Society, and Cambridge Children’s Aid Society, I can state that they are all out of control, and unfortunately the court goes along with guesses, exaggerations, and outright lies on court documents. They are all part of Ontario Children’s Aid Societies.
It must be said that there are well meaning CAS workers who truly care and respect parents rights, but they are too often in the minority. We all agree that children must be protected from abuse, but the existing situation has to be changed. I have seen that many workers are too young for the position, and either emotionally immature, disrespectful of others, power tripping, and/or have a paranoid mindset. Without accountability this is a dangerous situation for our children and for the parents trying to protect them.
What has happened is that a naive government has given cas workers the power to remove children from the family home without accountability to any outside organization and on the basis of assumptions. All too many workers abuse this and play on this power, as few have the training nor the maturity to handle such.
The following article I have quoted extensively as it shows the situation in parliament, and an Alliance Party MP trying unsuccessfully to help parents against a government out of control and uncaring.
While this may at first glance seem like the ravings of a lunatic, time spent reading the sources of these articles reveals awareness by a very large number of highly respected and well known organizations, Senators, Members of Parliament, court workers, medical doctors, reporters and more.
Brainwashing the Children… A Global Report, Part 4
by Jill Cohen Walker - May 24, 2006
“As the battle for total control over our children escalates, the bastions of social services in almost every nation are working overtime to steal them and turn them into state property. This is a global effort, not just an assault on American children, and no effort is too great to those who want to brainwash the children and make them citizens of the new global order...”
A four part article at The Conservative Voice
Alliance fights uphill battle for parents in Ottawa:
Ottawa Garry Breitkreuz, M.P. for Yorkton-Melville, lost a battle in his war with the government over parental rights and responsibilities. Breitkreuz’ private members motion (M-33) was opposed by the government and dropped from the order of business.
“M-33 would have given parents a few rights when it comes to determining what is in their children’s best interests,” said Breitkreuz. ...Motion M-33 called on Parliament to amend Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to:
(a) recognize the fundamental right of individuals to pursue family life free from undue interference by the state, and (b) recognize the fundamental right, responsibility and liberty of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, and urge the legislative assemblies of the provinces to do likewise.
‘I’m disappointed that government bureaucrats will still be able to take children from their parents with little or no evidence and with little or no investigation to determine if the accusations against the parents are true or false. Children are suffering abuse as a result of the government’s gestapo tactics. (emphasis mine-canadesign) Parents often spend months and thousands of dollars to prove the government made terrible mistakes. But by then the damage of removing the children from their parent’s love and care is already done.’ During his speech, Breitkreuz outlined a number of horror stories of children who have been victimized by overzealous bureaucrats…
Breitkreuz accused the government of sweeping this issue under the rug after his attempt to make his motion votable was rejected. The Liberals, Progressive Conservatives and N.D.P. all spoke against the motion. ‘This leaves only one political party left defending the family,’ Breitkreuz pointed out.
‘This issue is not dead,” declared Breitkreuz. I’ll continue to look for other legislative measures to give both children and parents more protection from these overzealous bureaucrats who defy the principles of fundamental justice. I will continue to defend families from the government’s social engineers who work behind parents backs using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as their legal justification,” promised Breitkreuz. “The process of amending the Charter can start in the federal Parliament or any provincial legislature. I encourage concerned parents and family members to encourage their Provincial Members of Parliament or Legislature to introduce a parental rights resolution. One way or another we will do what is right.’
Liberals Kill Debate on Parental Rights and Responsibility Motion
Ottawa: Garry Breitkreuz, M.P. for Yorkton-Melville
“...the Saskatchewan MP continues to introduce petitions supporting parental rights and responsibilities. He has introduced 241petitions with 4,261 signatures opposing various sections of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and 10 petitions with 920 signatures of Canadians who support the current wording of Section 43 of the Criminal Code.”
“...The way this Liberal government is ramming through legislation without allowing common sense amendments is a violation of the fundamental principles of democracy.”
Explore Gary’s excellent site for more government lies and coverups! Highly recommended.
For crying out loud people, get involved! They will take away everything we have here in Canada. Our children, property, freedom...and if they do its YOUR fault for doing nothing.
The State of Children in Canada
Submission by Fathers for Life
“...Furthermore, a more appropriate name for the CCRC [Canadian Coalition for the Rights of the Children ] would perhaps be ‘Canadian Coalition for the Promotion of the Abrogation of Parental Rights.’
In accordance with that, we recently saw the Supreme Court of Canada overturn the decision by the Manitoba Supreme Court not to give social service agencies the right — without the need for a prior hearing and without any warrant — to apprehend children from their parents and to place those children into foster care. Thereby the abrogation of parental rights has become reality for all of Canada. [See “Nationalizing Children."]
Without any doubt, the CCRC’s stance on parental rights has been a contributing factor to the abrogation of those rights. Moreover, it boggles the mind that the Liberal government of Canada should see fit to fund an organization that feels that the primary objective in addressing the needs of children at risk is to take them away from their parents. Nevertheless, consider that the funding for the CCRC comes from organizations and departments who largely have a reputation of being hostile to Canadian families...”
Seizing children — a tactic for the destruction of the family and to attain state-control of the population
Throughout history, rampant child apprehensions and state-ownership of children went hand-in-hand with totalitarian regimes and tyrannies.
The State of Children in Canada
fathersforlife.org
The CCRC is involved in the United Nations in a major way. They were at the UN Special Session on Children in May, 2002.
“...The US is one of only two countries in the world, the other being Somalia, that have not ratified the UN convention on the rights of the child.
The US believes its own national laws protecting children are more than adequate, and views the UN convention, or indeed any attempt to give children more rights, as a potential threat to the role of parents, and the whole idea of the nuclear family...
Children take centre-stage at UN
By Greg Barrow
BBC correspondent at the United Nations
Fathers For Life state:
“An effective solution to the problems they wish to address is to call for less and not more government interference, and to call for the creation and promotion of the family values that served so well in the past to prevent the kind of problems they hope to address by “taking children into care.”
I agree totally!
Civil servants, not Parliament, now in charge of making the laws in Canada
By Mike March, Family Justice Critic
“...This article dealt with the meddling in politics by our civil servants in the Justice Department. This meddling has been especially apparent during the most recent Justice Department consultations relating to custody and access being held behind closed doors by the Justice Department bureaucrats
In a letter to the National Post on July 6, 2001, The Honorable Senator Anne Cools and Roger Galloway, Member of Parliament, wrote “the consultations are mimics of Parliament [and that] a politically active civil service is contrary to our system of governance.”
You know what? They’re absolutely right.
It seems that instead of being the crew of the ship as they should be, the civil servants want to take over the captain’s seat and run the boat. Canada’s family courts are an utter disgrace in this country. Every Canadian in this country should be ashamed of what we call family “justice” in this country. Children and families are being ruined by the disgraceful conduct of our lawyers, judges and those civil servants in the justice department who seem to be doing their best to thwart the wishes of the majority of Canadians who only want to restore fairness and equality in our family court system.
Or could it be the Justice Department has been overrun by radical feminists who are planning to take over Canada by throwing all fathers in jail for unpaid child support or to place them in one of those new jails for Dads and their children called supervised access centres? If there is one thing that is certain, it is that Canadians would agree that it’s time to put these civil servants back in their place. Canadians are fed up. Civil servants are supposed to be working for the Canadian people and for the betterment of the children and families of Canada, not against them...”
Children’s Aid Workers Change Agents?
...in recent years departmental discipline has tended to protect, rather than correct, over-zealous social workers. Why? Probably because departmental officials, who are often graduates of the same schools of social work, have acquired the same ideas; and along with those ideas, they have been taught that their task as “change agents in society” can even supersede legislative authority.”
We’re Losing Our Liberties at Aylmer, Ontario, and at the UN
by Ron Gray National leader, Christian Heritage Party
The UN is deeply involved in government policy, and has been for many years. To a degree most would find shocking.
In our research we find that the identical problems show up globally. The question that needs answering is WHY is this happening. To answer that question takes a much deeper analysis. It is much more than a problem with an individual social worker or member of parliament on a local level, although it certainly can be.
Special interest groups are being funded by the Canadian taxpayer to challenge laws passed by the legislature. The UN strongly supports this, even calls for it as a way to bypass democratic process, and introduce its mandates. The result is judge made law in distinction to parliamentary process. This results in Children’s Aid workers illegally ruling over families and demanding ridiculous requirements for parents to even visit their own children when little or no wrong has been done.
“...All considered, one is left with the question: how have we arrived at this stage of corruption?
The answer is simple: Judicial training is based on research that is conducted by methodology that will produce a predetermined outcome. A small but vocal ideological fringe group, that is bent on destroying the very foundation on which civilizations are built, has hijacked our political and judicial systems. Our departments of justice and health have become the major platforms from which they distribute their propaganda. Judges, instead of applying law in a just and fair manner, are now interpreting it according to their own personal biases...”
Read entire Welcome to NoJustice.info
The present costly, indefinitely drawn out court process is beyond ridiculous, and beyond sanity. For parents to have to spend thousands of dollars and months if not years to prove their innocence in court, or that a worker was mistaken, or lying; and for the children to be traumatized for months if not years by being separated from parents while this takes place, shows a system that has lost its way. A society that has lost its humanity. It offends all sense of civilization and decency.
In our research it has been found that problems with child protection agencies is a global agenda. The identical problems are all over. The U.N., the justice system, and some of our Members of Parliament are at war with children and fathers. A war against the family.
“Rights and responsibilities”
...Federal Justice Minister Martin Cauchon startled members of Parliament and many Canadians last week when he blurted out to the Commons justice committee that “Parents have responsibilities, they don’t have rights.”
The Ottawa Citizen
Monday, March 31, 2003
How true Martin....how true. This has been true ever since the demise of democracy in Canada, but thanks for the reminder…
“...People who only have responsibilities and no rights are slaves, and this seems to be what the Liberals are about… Minister Cauchon had also told the committee. ‘Shared parenting has created a legal presumption that we don’t want.’
Who is we is he talking about? The feminist groups in Canada. What they want, apparently, is to maintain the costly and biased system currently responsible for the alienation of tens of thousands of Canadian children every year. A system, shown in study after study, that produces more and more juvenile delinquents and hard core criminals every year, thanks to willful and court enforced parental alienation.
In the last few years, suicides among men have increased, under the pressure of a malfunctioning judiciary system, uncivilized relations between ex spouses, and a society that keeps silent about these tragedies. This deafening silence continues even in front of the children, who suffer terribly and often lose their fathers forever. The state has no business creating or interpreting legislation that has the effect of terminating custody rights and duties between parents and their children, it brings great harm to all concerned. Even the Constitutional Rights and Supreme Court precedent indicate that the family and child/parent relationship is “a zone of private autonomy”, and the state “has no business intervening and disrupting the child/parent relationship unless it is proven to a high standard that the child is at serious risk of harm” in the care of one of the parents.
The Justice Minister Cauchon undemocratic tactics with child custody bill is outrageous and he should learn of the proper relationship between Ministers of the Crown and Parliament, the people’s representative assembly,” or at least resign for the sake of the children and parents in Canada. The People of Canada have spoken on this issue and want the changes, but feminist groups in Canada have a strangle hold on the Federal Justice department and anything that might do some good for children in this country will be placed on the back burners now forever… .
Since the Liberal Government and the Justice department claim parents have no rights, and the state can do as it’s pleases with Canadian children...”
Liberal Justice Minister’s needs to stop buying the Feminist Line
by Mark G. Hansel-The Right Point Web Site
I would add also that the multi-million dollar legal system that the present system supports. Lawyers and others are making millions from children and families emotional trauma, they have a vested interest in maintaining the present destructive system. It is presently unknown how many have been driven to suicide or murder by this legal atrocity.
“...Under provincial law, all that authorities require before initiating an intrusive investigation of a family is one complaint by an anonymous third party. Under provincial legislation, a child may be apprehended if the social worker decides they fit within the catch-all term a “child in need of protection”. Although this term is well defined by the legislation, unclear procedural and evidentiary standards often mean that state interference in the family is based on assumptions rather than facts...”
Protecting Parental Liberty in a Child-Centered Legal System
by Cindy Silver, lawyer,
The Centre for Cultural Renewal originally published this article. I see it is no longer there, and the center’s site, has degraded into a diffirent, user-unfrienly site, with some psf downloads on obscure subjects. A lot of it is disfunctional.
The granting of draconian powers to CAS workers without corresponding accountability and the removal of the family preservation clause calls for a public investigation and outcry.
This kind of legislation has happened elsewhere, with a corresponding dramatic increase in abuse and death of children. Our MP’s seem to be only interested in collecting a paycheck. That is, those who aren’t a part of actively attacking the family.
“We don’t have to guess what will happen if opponents of family preservation get what they want. We don’t have to guess what will happen if family preservation is effectively abandoned.
We don’t have to guess, because it happened--
in Illinois in 1993,But instead of saving lives, child abuse deaths went up. They soared from 78 before family preservation was abandoned to 82 the first year after, to 91 in fiscal 1997. By 1996, a child was more likely to be placed in foster care in Illinois than in any other state. Indeed, an Illinois child was more than four times as likely to be placed in foster care than a child in New Jersey. Yet Illinois children were twice as likely to die of abuse as New Jersey children.
(State of Illinois, Department of Children and Family Services, Office of Quality Assurance, Executive Statistical Summary, January, 1998)in Connecticut in 1995: Two years later, a child “known to the system” died in Connecticut. Rather than learn from the Illinois experience, Connecticut officials repeated it. They, too, scapegoated family preservation. The foster care population increased by 73 percent in two years. There was a scandal over abuse in foster care, and, as in Illinois, child abuse deaths have increased.”
(David Dearborn, and James Wiltse spokesmen, Connecticut Department of Children and Families)in New York City in 1996: “Then it was New York City’s turn. Again, this time in late 1995, a child “known to the system” died. Again officials blamed “family preservation” - Once again, they set off a foster care panic, overwhelming the system. The result: Thousands of children were forced to sleep, often on chairs and floors, in a violence-plagued, emergency makeshift shelter created from city offices, a four-year-old foster child was beaten and starved to death in a foster home opened by one private agency, apparently desperate for beds, after another had closed it down,...Between 1996 and 1998, deaths of children previously “known to the system” increased by 50 percent.
(New York City Administration for Children’s Services, Progress on ACS Reform Initiatives: Status Report 3 (March, 2001) Chart, P.38.)in Florida in 1999.: And then came Florida. The death of a child “known to the system” and the appointment of a state child welfare agency chief staunchly opposed to keeping families together combined to set off a foster care panic in 1999. Again the foster care population soared. And again, deaths of children “known to the system” increased, from an average of 25 per year in the four years before the Florida Foster Care Panic to 30 in 1999, 30 again in 2000 and 35 in 2001.”
(1995-1998: Florida Department of Children and Families, Child Abuse and Neglect Deaths: Calendar Year 1999 (Tallahassee, FL: March 2001); 1999 and 2000: Florida Department of Health, Florida Child Abuse Death Review System)
family preservation abandoned
by National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
They have an excellent article list on family proptection which we could only dream our gov. or cas would read!
When will people ever learn? The deception our legislature and courts is practicing results in the taking away of parents rights, NOT child safety. Ditto to gun control legislation. Its all a deception to attain certain objectives. For those without an agenda the total inability to learn from experience is reprehensible; children’s lives are at stake here!
Many respected organizations becoming aware of their agenda and opposing it. Focus on the Family is Was? one such:
…
“Given their track record, CAS really had no business telling loving parents how to raise their children in the first place. These are, after all, the same people who last year alone felt nearly 16,000 Ontario children were better off in government care than with their parents. ...it is hard to imagine that in one province 16,000 children a year are so mistreated as to warrant the trauma of being forcefully removed and separated from their parents....Despite the growing list of horror stories involving children in government care the number of children removed from families in the province continues to grow at a staggering rate of nearly 10% per year.
This is an agenda that is quite frankly out of control. ...These social workers may be well intentioned, but that does not justify the tragedy they continue to inflict on too many Ontario families. It is time they are reined in....While the CAS has thumbed its nose at the law time and again, the Ontario government has doubled its funding of Children’s Aids Societies over the last five years. The government can no longer turn a blind eye to the situation...”
This article on the CAS has been rmoved from the Focus on the Family site. I believe they are being “politically correct” and abandoning the truth.
by Focus on the Family (Canada) Association
In Ontario and the rest of North America, rights agencies stand back...For Ontario parents who think they are being abused, the complaints desk is in the same agency they want to complain about....”
Series on Child Protection - tanadineen
by Dave Brown, Senior Editor at the Ottawa Citizen.
It’s hard to say if our MP’s have gone to sleep, indoctrinated with fascist UN ideology, or just don’t care. Mostly the latter, yet they blandly say they support “family values.”
posted at CAC forum: “My daughter was paired with a CAS worker at a seminar recently and the CAS worker was gloating about “having more power than the police...” This says it all.
Professional complaints lacking? This article states how CAS operates:
“...Disrespect for CAS is widespread in the child care industry. I have encountered many people who freely acknowledge that it is a harmful institution, yet none will take action to oppose it, since CAS is in a position to destroy the career of any child care professional who raises his voice in opposition. The situation brings to mind a line by Martin Luther King, history will not remember what bad people do, but what good people fail to do.”
Big Sister is Watching
by Family Rights Association
The following applies to Canada as well, as the situation is almost identical. The above article by a Canadian, about Canadian conditions was posted on their site.
Declaration of Hostilities
On this 17th day of June in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Two,
American Family Rights Association (AFRA) declares "Formal Hostilities" against
social workers and the corrupt agencies and bureaucrats who enable them. ...), and subsequent legislation- presented under the GUISE of “child protection” and “best interest of the child"- is DESTROYING THE FABRIC OF AMERICAN SOCIETY by deliberately and systematically dismantling the very foundation of any society: the family.
...Children are being removed and being made Legal Orphans at an alarming rate - in most cases- based on the presumption of Parental Unfitness, and without any requirement of valid evidence of harm, or even realistic risk of harm, to the child.
American Family Rights Association
states that "Child Abuse Prevention" produces deceptive Public Service
Announcements that are deliberately constructed to manipulate (inciting the
mob) public opinion and the administration into emotional, knee-jerk
reaction and encouraging reporting the SLIGHTEST SUSPICION, whether real,
perceived, or fabricated, with complete immunity.The CPS agenda is NOT remotely about
"protecting children" or "saving" them from abuse/neglect.
They are frauds who have cleverly and purposefully deceived and have manipulated
the public and the legislators to advance their own agendas.
American Family Rights Association
American Family Rights Associations
Declaration of “Formal Hostilities” against social workers
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
“The professional community has been divided about how to deal with
child abuse from the outset. We know that a system can be created
which disrupts far fewer families, keeps far more children out of our
destructive system of foster care, and protects more children from
harm at the hands of their parents.In the fall of 1991, experts in the field held a conference at
Harvard Law School to organize a new group to take the case for child
protection reform to the public. The National Coalition for Child
Protection Reform is the result of that conference.... We
do not seek this change because the system hurts parents. We seek
this change because the system hurts children. Our hope is to turn
the public monologue about child abuse into a dialogue.INTRODUCTION: HOW THE WAR AGAINST CHILD ABUSE BECAME A WAR AGAINST CHILDREN
Think of “child abuse” and what comes to mind? Probably a child
brutally beaten, raped or tortured by a parent.Think of “foster care” and what comes to mind? Probably a safe
haven for a “crack baby” whose mother just tried to sell him on
the street for her next fix.Think of your local agency responsible for dealing with child
abuse, Child Protective Services, and what comes to mind? An
agency that intervenes in only the most serious cases, removes
children from their homes only as a last resort, and makes one
big mistake: Returning children to dangerous homes because some
fuzzy-minded law requires it.That is the image of child abuse in America painted by much of
the nation’s child welfare establishment.That image is false.”
A War Against Children
A series by the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
“...Here in Canada, judges have condemned social workers for taking sides when divorcing mothers have falsely accused fathers of child sexual abuse. In one such case, an Ontario judge concluded in 1994 that the Children’s Aid Society of Durham Region continued to argue in court that a father was guilty even after it had belatedly realized he was innocent. (In effect, he was being punished for declining the society’s offer of a financial settlement.) That this was a dismal way to serve the interests of the man’s two daughters—who were supposed to be the society’s sole focus—seems to have escaped the social workers involved.
In another false sex abuse case, a Manitoba judge condemned a social worker in 1999 for, among other things, glossing over serious concerns regarding a mentally disturbed mother’s ability to care for her daughter. In the words of the judge, the social worker “was determined to stop [the father] from seeing [his daughter] and it appeared that she would go to any length.” The child suffered terribly as a result—to the point where, noted the judge, this six-year-old “spoke of jumping out a window.” (We do have judges who are ok, but this is rare)
Most social workers have only the best of intentions. But that’s clearly not enough to prevent them from devastating children’s lives under the guise of saving them.”
Read article:
The ‘Anti-Spanking’ Movement
by National Post Online
The Family Aid Society (FAS) has been formed in response to the Children’s Aid Society’s failure to recognize family-authority to train and discipline children:
“Families, and especially children, in Ontario need protection from the risk of emotional, physical and financial harm which occurs whenever the Children’s Aid Society enters their lives without just cause.”
Judge Sets Negative Precedent for Family Rights
by Ryan Kidd
Family Aid Society
Sue CAS?
“My concerns outlined herein are not just the vain musings of a disgruntled citizen, but rather they come fresh from the crucible of personal suffering over the 11 years, 2 months and 11 days it took me to become the first Canadian in legal history to successfully sue a Children’s Aid Society. In July of 1996 the Ontario Court of Appeal unequivocally found the Durham Children’s Aid Society and its social workers guilty of the grossest negligence, gross incompetence and malicious prosecution.
Judge *** described the behavior of the social worker Ms. *** in particular and the agency in general as “utterly reprehensible”...The whole immoral and sordid action by the C. A. S. cost me in excess of $380,000 and my final pathetic award for damages was a pitiful $70,000 and the indignity of personal bankruptcy. Today, I stagger under the financial burden of owing in excess of $300,000!
...the social workers along with many others responsible for similar injustices continue to
work with impunity. (for cas) The cost to the taxpayers for my case alone was between one and two million ...
A Call for support for Justice
by Reverend Dorian A. Baxter ,
Chairman of the National Association for Public and Private Accountability.
“In Ontario, there are more than 50 child-protection agencies, and each is autonomous. They are "arm’s-length" agencies, which means they have little oversight and almost no accountability.
Regional Councillor Alex Munter has long been a proponent of allowing Ontario’s ombudsman to provide that oversight. The province’s recently appointed ombudsman, former judge and police complaints commissioner Clare Lewis, says he’s open to the idea. It would require only tinkering with existing legislation.
Meanwhile, each individual agency is mandated to enforce a set of laws called the Child and Family Services Act. By definition, they are police departments --without controls...”
by Dave Brown
Bringing about a change of attitude in North America would seriously weaken the established multi-billion dollar child abuse industry, and power is not easily given up.