PROTECTING CANADIAN CHILDREN
Here is a website for an Ontario organization called 'Protecting Canadian Children' for which the watchword is “The Children Must Come First!”
For those of you in Ontario, here is information about a Conference to be held on Friday November 5th in Hamilton at the Renaissance Banquet Centre at 2289 Barton Street East from 9:30 Am to 6:00 PM for a price of $40.00 that includes registration and lunch. It is hosted by Protecting Canadian Children and the Conference theme is “Family Protection.” A Candlelight Vigil is also scheduled for the following evening, Saturday November 6th with details to come at the PCC website link noted at the top paragraph.
The organization also has a public Facebook page to which relatively few people have subscribed.
The impetus behind the organization is a woman named Alfredine Linda Plourde (creator of the Facebook page and primary contributor to the PCC website). She informed me that I could call her Linda. Alfredine or, Linda, has a Facebook page to which only signed friends can access her profile information. But you can get informative biographical information by clicking the link. If you know Linda personally, send her a message or add her as a friend. Alfradine Linda Plourde is becoming one of my heroes.
If you have a story that you wish to share with the Protecting Our Children website you can query or send data to enquiries@protectingcanadianchildren.ca
Alfredine is French Acadian and was born in Bathurst NB and is now a resident of Ontario. She never considered herself an activist or radical but in 2004 without warning she became personally acquainted with a nightmare experienced when as she writes her grandson was placed at unnecessary risk by the Catholic Children's Aid Society. Like many others, she began to research and consult and learned that thousands of similar stories exist in Canada with which she too is convinced the majority of Canadians are unaware. She has been gathering and publishing the stories, many of them with maintained confidentiality and she has been promoting educational awareness through rallies, marches and conferences. In addition she has spearheaded movements to lobby governments to intervene and to change policy and practice. Her crusade is primarily directed at the CAS and CCAS, Children's Aid Society and the Catholic Children's Aid Society. She is aware that each province in Canada has organizations like these even if known by different names. She is one of the champions to set things right. In fact look at a video she prepared. At this page you will see two videos, hers is the one on the left. Watch that one first. You will hear her sincerity if you watch to the end. The one on the right is the late Nancy Schaeffer, US Crusader for change in Child Welfare.
If you would like to become a distributor for the book by the title 'Protecting Canadian Children', please contact Alfradine at: protectingcanadianchildren@hotmail.com
or you may purchase one for $35.00 by calling one of these book stores:
- Queenston Stationery, 35 King Street, Stoney Creek, Ontario, 905-664-3360
- Bryan Prince , Bookseller Ltd., 1060 King Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, 905-528-4508
- In Hamilton, contact Maureen at 905-387-3506
- In Brantford, contact Claudia Hudson 1-519-754-0670
- Mountain Plaza Mall - Cigars Galore, 905-387-1146
- Mountain Book Store, 560 Concession Street, Hamilton, 905-385-6082
