This past Sunday evening my wife and I were invited guests at a fund-raising dinner held by CASJAFVA, that is an acronym for Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association. It was held in Vancouver's Chinatown at the Floata Restaurant. Six hundred people were in attendance, including some media people and some politicians and candidates for office. It is primarily Chinese based and operated having been founded and nurtured by lawyer K-John Cheung in 1997.
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| Brad Trost in the House |
I too was invited to provide an update about Paul and Zabeth Bayne who were also in attendance. This organization has been a principal supporter within the network of encouragement that has been offered to this couple over the past three years. The Baynes were presented to this large crowd last year. Their tears flowed as people stood to applaud them. I am providing the text of my speech here today and tomorrow.
First Part
“These have been three of the longest and most painful years that any parent could possibly live and survive. Three children, with two of whom, the sons Kent and Baden, Paul and Zabeth had already begun a loving parent-child relationship with ideals for their lives, with goals and hoped-for plans of a nurturing family in which their faith in God would play an important role. With the third child, a girl, Bethany, came the exciting prospect of a tiny child in dresses and with long hair and a sweet smile but she was only weeks old and any possibility of relationship had not yet had time to develop. And then with the incident/accident and the hospital diagnosis, and the response by police and the Ministry of Children, any relationship with her was put into jeopardy. Furthermore the two boys were children, for whom no explanation could possibly be adequate to mitigate the sheer terror of being snatched away from their parents. All of that happened three years ago. This past Friday was the third anniversary of their removal.”
It is most gratifying to hear that you are using your oratory skills to alert people of what is going on.
ReplyDeleteChild Protection Exposed wrote of the difficulty of one person talking with politicians and keeping up with the demands of a blog.
Identifying larger groups such as the Canadian Alliance for Justice is precisely the strategy that is needed to raise awareness. That one appearance on your part, and mention of your blog amplifies the message.
Superb! This is precisely the kind of publicity needed to draw attention to what MCFD really does to families.
ReplyDeleteAs the author of "Daughter's Choice", I wrote it to discuss the issues within the Ministry for Children & Families. I am having a benefit with guest speakers on November 2, 2010 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The event will be held at the Clearbrook Public Library, in Abbotsford, in the meeting room. I have the Canadian Foster Family Association & the BC Federation of Foster Parents in attendance as well as some councillors from Abbotsford. Ironically I had extended invititations to several keynote players within the Provincial Government such as the BC Children's Minister Mary Polak (perhaps the interview she provided for my book was sufficient), Honorable Rich Coleman, the BC Premier Gordan Campbell, the office of the representative for youth, the ombudsperson. Non of which accepted my invitation to attend. This left me with the thought that perhaps they don't want change. The situation with Zabeth & Paul Baynes is just one of many situations. Unfortunately our BC Ministry does not wish to admit when they are wrong. They rip children out of the arms of parents with nothing substantiated, but yet when a child is being abused and neglected they leave them in these situations. Hopefully Zabeth & Paul will find some resolution soon. Zabeth I'll call you this evening. Regards
ReplyDeleteDianna Holden- Worldwide People Locators Publishing
Today I went on the bus to my endless appointments that I must attend for my supervision order. On the bus was a woman I have known for many years. She is a nurse at a busy hospital and has taken care of the sick many times. She said she was going to visit her grandchild. I said I was going to an appointment. THen she admitted to me that her gran daughter was taken and is not being given back to her or to her daughter. Why? Well I guess it all started two years ago when the parents had a fight. I am not sure how MCFD got involved, but they made the mother promise to not let the child see her father. Now 2 years is a long time to go with a dad who loves his daughter. SO, he snuck a visit. Then someone who I guess makes it their business to do so, called on them, the police came and took the child. Just sharing another story.
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ReplyDeleteThank you very much for sharing your story regarding the brutality of this taxpayer funded "ministry" we call MCFD. It seems that they love to tear apart families, and can't wait to remove or apprehend children and babies if the parents dare to sneak some time together. This is exactly what happened to Misha Peterson, a young mother who had three or four officers hold her down on the bed and zap her twice on the neck until she let go of her baby, a boy named Taige.
For more information, see:
http://www.pa-pa.ca/Peterson.html
Yes, I know of her story. I watched it when the police first came into my house last year. THey sent 4 police officers and would not even give a reason why they were there. NO drugs or alcohol were found, but they pursued a case against me anyways as they had a suspicion that I may be mentally ill (since proven false). That is another angle. Then as I did nothing wrong, they claimed I had untreated mental illness, I got my psych eval right away after that, it cleared my name, but still lost some of my kids. One came back and one is still in care. Now I am being told that it is hoped I will not 'disrupt him' by asking that he return home to my care!!!
ReplyDeleteThen one day when I was at home and my little girl answered the phone then gave the phone to my teenage son, and I did not call the SW back ASAP, 4 police came within 30 minutes and surrounded my home and yelled at me full blast. in front of all my neighbours.
Very frightening for my 5 year old!!!!
Anon at October 27, 2010 9:07 AM:
ReplyDeleteIt seems incredible that such things can occur in a so-called democracy. This tactic of claiming someone is mentally ill seems to be quite common (and this was also used to discredit Misha Peterson, so that the public wouldn't care so much, or would excuse the police for tasering her).
It seems that it is becoming more and more common to encounter people who have been, in some way, wronged by the system.
MCFD, like all child protection agencies around the world, seems to be staffed largely with bullies, who seem to treat people worse the more you show fear. I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem to me to do any good whatsoever to cowtow to them. The more subservient and fearful you are of them, the more they seem to go on a power trip - which for them means taking children and keeping them as long as possible.
I tend to think that parents should always be as vocal as possible about their particular case, but of course each person must do what is best for them and their children. But it would be, I think, a good idea for parents to learn as much as they could about public relations, publishing (especially on the Internet), and how to get the word out to as many as possible, including doing interviews and so on.
MCFD and all child protection agencies live in fear of being exposed for what they are. They depend, crucially, upon the silence of their victims.
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