Why is Ontario's Children's Aid Societies shrouded in more secrecy than CSIS?
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- Category: Canadian Child Protection Services
- Created: Monday, 05 June 2017 23:44
- Written by Families United Ontario
Former Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian : "As the law stands now clients of the Ontario Children's Aid Society under Wynne's liberals are routinely denied a timely (often heavily censored) file disclosure before the court begins making life altering decisions and the "clients" can not request files/disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act nor can censored information reviewed by the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario or the federal counter-part."
As far back as 2004, Ontario's Privacy Commissioner has lobbied for oversight and accountability for the Children’s Aid Society and been completely ignored.
Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian wants to add children's aid societies to the agencies covered by freedom of information legislation. In her annual report for 2013 released on June 17 there is just one paragraph on children's aid on page 12: In my 2004, 2009, and 2012 Annual Reports I recommended that Children’s Aid Societies, which provide services for some of our most vulnerable citizens – children and youth in government care, be brought under FIPPA. I am disheartened by the complete lack of action to ensure transparency and accountability by these organizations that received significant public funding. As part of the modernization of the Acts, I call on the government to finally address this glaring omission and ensure that Children’s Aid Societies are added to the list of institutions covered.
WHY IS A PRIVATE CORPORATION KEEPING SECRET FILES ON CANADIAN CITIZENS?
SECTION 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a constitutional provision that protects an individual's autonomy and personal legal rights from actions of the government (and the government's private non-profit corporate agents.)
The degree of protection dictated by these standards and procedural rights vary in accordance with the precise context, involving a contextual analysis of the affected person's interests. In other words, the more a person's rights or interests are adversely affected, the more procedural or substantive protections must be afforded to that person in order to respect the principles of fundamental justice.
Watch : The Kingston Video - Due Process Denied.
https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesUnitedOntario/videos/570836186459483/
Has wynne done anything to ensure children that don't need to be in care aren't being placed in care?
Why yes she has!
Before claiming she would be willing to blow up the cas to save just one child were there any evidence of wrong doing she ....
- Killed ombudsman oversight of the children's aid society and replaced it with an agency that doesn't have the same mandate or authority as the ombudsman and has always worked in tandem with the society in the past.
- Refused to enforce the social worker registration act and willfully refused to understand or acknowledge the purpose of the act.
- Ignored the auditor general's reports regarding the societies many failures to perform their statutory duties in a professional and competent manner. See recent: mistaken identity blamed as cas take 6-year-old out of school
- Ignored the privacy commissioner's repeated calls to include the children's aid society under the freedom of information and protection of privacy act (could this last one be an overlooked performance indicator?)
Wynne's liberals refuse to accept responsibilty for taking complaints about the society leaving to the society to police themselves.
At a certain point, coincidence becomes pattern.
And the real kicker here is the society claim they have more oversight than anyone else has.
http://unpublishedottawa.com/letter/151079/why-ontarios-childrens-aid-society-shrouded-more-secrecy-csis
