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…Would be to not reappoint Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond as the province’s child representative.
And make no mistake, it is this government, a government currently being run by the very person who knows best about all that this government did wrong regarding child protection
in the past, that has the hammer in this matter as they hold the majority of the seats on the ‘selection’ committee as Lindsay Kines tells in the Times-Colonist today.
Kines also goes to the person who has done the most to give us a chance to fix all that this government, and to be fair, previous governments have gotten wrong,
Mr. Ted Hughes
….Former judge Ted Hughes, whose 2006 report led to the creation of Turpel-Lafond’s office, recommended the review of the office’s role after five years.
But he stated recently that, after years of conflict between the representative’s office and government, the two sides are only now collaborating as he envisioned. Hughes told the Times Colonist that the representative’s office should continue its job of monitoring the Ministry of Children and Family Development for some time.
“It is not the time to discontinue that part of the representative’s work,” he said. “But if things go as I think they’re going to go, two years from now I would think we may well be at the point where that aspect of the representative’s work will have been completed.”….
So, when you hear, see and read press reports on this matter, ignore the blah, blah, blah, blah coming out of the mouths of people like Colin Hansen and remember the words of Mr. Hughes.
Because, as past performance demonstrates, the former mean nothing and the latter actually matter.
OK?
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If anyone needs more background about why this matter actually matters, a good place to start is here.
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