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| 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.
