EMERGENCY - NEWS - THAT LITTLE METIS GIRL - MCFD IS CONSCIENCELESS

IF YOU HAVE TO LOOK BACK A FEW POSTS THAT PERTAIN TO THE METIS CHILD BEING TAKEN FROM HER FOSTER PARENTS WHO METIS & BEING SHIPPED TO ONTARIO TO A NON-FIRST NATIONS FAMILY, THEN PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ. BUT LOOK AT THIS HORROR. This letter is written by Ray Ferris, my colleague, & sent to Times Colonist as well as some MLAs. 

Well said G.M. Jackson T.C. Saturday. With the latest news it gets even worse for the poor child. TC published my letter on the potential for conflict between the different rights of children and that no one right is paramount over the others. Now the MCF not only wants the child to move to strangers in Ontario, but they forbid the foster parents from partaking in a transition plan. They must take the child daily for visits in a temporary foster home. On Monday they must take her to the home and they will never see her again. The child will stay in the temporary home for an indefinite period until the move to Ontario. She is already upset every day when picked up. This is organised child emotional abuse. What was a feasible scheme two and a half years ago is now totally inappropriate. To pursue it shows a profound ignorance of child psychology.

    The foster parents’ plea to the supreme court was thrown out on legal points and the best interests of the child were not considered. The ministry people know perfectly well that lawyer Jack Hittrich has filed an appeal. Should the foster parents succeed, the child will be moved again. Is this a vindictive retaliation for going public?

 

 

Ray Ferris   4124 Longview Drive Victoria BC. V8N 2K7 Phone 250-477-5723 

SS IS A METIS CHILD WHO IS IN A MESS

Hon. Stephanie Cadieux

Really? B.C.'s Children's Ministry (MCFD) says she cannot go. Who? Who is she? A  toddler only known as SS. She was not permitted to go to a Métis cultural event being held in her honour. Why would the Métis Federation hold an event to honour her? That's another story. Wow, if you think the first prohibition is an embarrassment for MCFD with respect to political or cultural correctness, then the rest of the story will strike you as an offence. I wish I could call it criminality but the Ministry is all-powerful.

I have told this before but here it is. Since birth SS has been raised by Métis foster parents who want to adopt her. MCFD doesn't have to explain itself but it does not wish to approve this application. Instead MCFD has informed the foster parents that they will remove SS from them, these culturally appropriate caregivers and ship her off to Ontario. Oh it's so stupid. You know I get weary of the Ministry's madness. But of course it can be defended by reason that she will join two siblings in the same Ontario family. The fuller story is that these are non Metis caregivers, non aboriginal. And furthermore, SS had never met nor known the two siblings. The Metis couple who desire to adopt her are the only mom and dad that SS has ever known. She has been raised with a toddler's awareness of Metis culture, sounds and practices, music and foods.

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO LET A TODDLER STAY WITH FAMILY

Child can’t be identified, but this is the little girl

Three posts entries ago I wrote an article entitled, 'METI FOSTER PARENTS CONTEST THE RELOCATION OF THEIR METIS FOSTER    CHILD'.

Now I want you to consider signing a petition to help these people. This little girl should not be placed in a non-aboriginal home with strangers. I want you to speak to the rights of this child to stay with the only family the child has known and where she is loved and at peace.

SIGN THIS PETITION in support of the toddler staying with family.

At the site, you will find the story that I touched upon in my piece above, but with personal and greater detail. Then the petition button is at the bottom of the prose. Please Sign.  

The Metis Foundation is in support of this child remaining with Metis foster parents in British Columbia who have cared for her since infancy. Her two siblings are with a non aboriginal family in Ontario. The  toddler doesn’t know her siblings.