They didn't want to make it an aboriginal issue so they were pretty quick to say it had nothing to do with it," says Taillieu. "Excuse me. A child died. You better find out why. "We looked at that and said 'that's what we've been saying all along, that you don't work with our families," she says. "You rush in and you take kids and you make them permanent wards. On the non-aboriginal side you're working with the families." "We are trying to help support the system in its changes," she said. "But we're a small office. We need a lot more resources. People come to us as a place of last resort. We shouldn't have wait times."
There cannot be a return to a foreign and imposed child welfare system for aboriginal Manitobans. Devolution will continue. Period. Aboriginal people have to have greater control over their own children and how they're raised and protected. "There are going to be enhancements to not only timely access to data but the analysis of that," said [Gord Mackintosh]. "This information must become available almost immediately." "The new provincial structure doesn't take away the need for provincial oversight and province-wide standards," said [Jon Gerrard]. "It's a rather black mark on the province that they're not able to do that."
WHEN the GST is cut by one percentage point on July 1, it will open up "tax room" for the provinces to move into, if they dare. In Manitoba, Premier Gary Doer could declare that he needs money to finally fix hallway medicine, for example, and announce that he will increase the provincial sales tax by one point to capture the $180 million that Ottawa will be leaving on the table by cutting the GST. He could state what would obviously be true, which is that Manitobans would not be worse off than they were before the GST was cut and that they will soon be better off because hallway medicine is to be fixed finally after seven years of trying. This is not a facetious scenario. It is rather an illustration of the sea change Prime Minister Stephen Harper intends for fiscal relations in Canada ...
[Hugh McFadyen] said the review is needed in the wake of two more deaths of children in care, as reported in Thursday's Free Press. Five-month-old Samuel Luke Maytwaywashing died of natural causes March 26 in his Lake Manitoba reserve home and 16-year-old will Trout Jr. hanged himself May 26 in a Winnipeg foster home. Maytwaywashing's siblings were in CFS care.
The cultural stuff is important," he says, "but people can survive without the culture. Everything being the same, it's valuable. But the safety of the child, their economic welfare, their psychological welfare, that's more important. If you are well looked after, it is possible to catch up on culture. It's not so easy to catch up on neglect. "I think devolution is a good thing," she says. "There's been generation after generation where we haven't been in charge of our own destiny." [Venecia Shanelle Audy]'s paternal grandmother, Irene Simpson-Campeau, told a local newspaper she had cared for Venecia and Venecia's younger brother until March of 2006 because Venecia's mother, Melissa Audy, now 24, was overwhelmed with the responsibility of looking after four children under the age of s...
So, too, is the province's insistence that all stakeholders involved in the devolution of probation services to these new aboriginal agencies be at the table during the critical implementation process. This was the reasoning behind the province's decision to include the union representing Manitoba's probation officers, the Manitoba Government and General Employees' Union (MGEU), during the devolution implementation stage. Manitoba Métis Federation President Chartrand, for example, was quoted as saying that if the government wanted front-line experience it should simply ask him, as he worked as a probation officer for four years. Chartrand, in a previous Free Press article (Probation new deal for Métis, natives, Sept. 13, 2004), likened Manitoba's probation system to "a babysitting servi...
Statistics show that there were many deaths in care prior to devolution. In 2001, 21 children throughout Manitoba died of unnatural causes while in care. In 2002, the figure goes up to 28. First Nations agencies did not receive caseloads until 2003. The fact is that the devolution process, which has been in the works since the 1980s, only actually took place in 2003. That's when the cases were transferred over to First Nations child and family services agencies. This is only four years of a system that was flawed in the first place. Yes, there were challenges and yes, there still are. But I am certain that the First Nations child and family services agencies are up to these challenges and are working hard to meet them. We are in the process of a huge historic systemic change, a change ...
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