IS IT ALL REALLY JUST AN UNFORTUNATE SERIES OF COINCIDENCES, SYSTEMIC ISSUES AND BUMPS ON THE ROAD?
In a paper entitled Safeguarding Non-Profit Organizations from Fraud, KPMG LLP states that the first line of defense is to recognize the signs:
Reconciliations are not being performed or reviewed on a timely basis and cash is not being deposited in the bank in a timely manner employees, particularly those with access to assets and/or financial accounting records, appear to be living beyond their means - key records go missing when you are looking for them the financial results suggest that the NPO is doing well but the organization is suffering from a lack of cash flow, or the cash flow is not commensurate with what one would expect costs are escalating at a rate that is unexpected and inconsistent with the budget if it is an employee committing the fraud, they tend to work longer hours when others are not around to observe their activities.
Physiological and behavioral patterns of corruption
22 December 2014
1. INTRODUCTION
A moral dilemma emerges when different motivations of human behavior dictate opposite actions in a given decision-making con- text. In economic situations, the most appealing type of dilemma concerns the conflict between selfish monetary reward maximization and adherence to some ethical pro-social norm, especially when the latter implies an economic loss. The emotional implications of such conflicts seem to originate, from the interplay between a basic impulse for greedy money-seeking motivations and alternative, more sophisticated social and personal ethical norms1. In this paper, we obtain behavioral data and emotional responses by the participants in a laboratory experiment based on a moral dilemma designed as a public procurement auction
with the option of an anti-social bribe by the winner of the auction to the auctioneer. Our results indicate that strong emotions are associated with actions against monetary reward maximization, rather than with the fulfillment or the violation of an ethical norm per se.
"Get to Know Kim Morrow former unregistered director of service for FCSLLG in our 50 second video above."
Ontario's Family and Children's Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville is reporting going over budget $792,292 in what they're calling a budget shortfall then claim to be the victims in a ransomware attack...?
"Ministry CyberSecurity Experts Swoop in to Add Security, Plug Holes and Wipe Malware."
Ransomware attacks at two children’s aid societies have spurred the Ontario government to tighten cybersecurity around a new, $123-million provincial database for children in care.
One of the agencies — the Children’s Aid Society of Oxford County — paid a $5,000 ransom to regain access to their sensitive data after the malware attack on their local servers on Jan. 18, according to sources with knowledge of the incident.
Officials with the other agency — Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville — saw an English ransom message flash on their computer screens, demanding $60,000, when they tried to access their database in November or so Mr Lemay claims but whether or not they can prove there was a message or a virus remains unknown. Guess we just have to take them at their word, again.
“It encrypted most of our servers,” says the Lanark agency’s executive director, Raymond Lemay. “No data was taken out of our system. It was just an attempt by whatever you call these people to get a ransom.”
Lemay says his agency didn’t pay up. He says it used an offline backup of computer files to get the agency up and running again in about eight hours.
Lemay says the ransomware attack cost his agency $100,000 to fix, an expense covered by his agency’s “cyber insurance.”
Two sets of books, isn't that how they got Al Capone?
To Cook the books is an idiom describing fraudulent activities performed by corporations to falsify their financial statements and God knows what else when it comes to the Ontario CAS..
“It encrypted most of our servers,” says the Lanark agency’s executive director, Raymond Lemay. “No data was taken out of our system. It was just an attempt by whatever you call these people to get a ransom.”
Lemay says his agency didn’t pay up. He says it used an offline backup of computer files to get the agency up and running again in about eight hours.
Lemay says the ransomware attack cost his agency $100,000 to fix, an expense covered by his agency’s “cyber insurance.”
Two sets of books, isn't that how they got Al Capone?
To Cook the books is an idiom describing fraudulent activities performed by corporations to falsify their financial statements and God knows what else when it comes to the Ontario CAS..
Cybersecurity experts from the province’s Ministry of Children and Youth Services, along with a private internet security firm, swooped into the agency to neutralize the malware in the infected servers.
“It took them about three weeks to find the needle in the haystack,” Lemay says.
The ransomware attack locked the agencies out of local online files that contained private information on the children and families they serve.
The computer virus attacked while the Lanark agency was uploading its data to a centralized database known as CPIN. It will allow societies across Ontario to share information more easily and better track how children in foster care and group homes are doing.
“They might have taken advantage of vulnerabilities that occurred because we were changing over to a new system,” Lemay says of CPIN. That’s one of the hypotheses, but we don’t know for sure.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2018/02/22/ransomware-attacks-hit-two-ontario-childrens-aid-societies.html
Kelley Denham, mother of four has been charged with theft under $5,000, mischief over $5,000, mischief to data, unauthorized use of a computer, traffick in identity information, and publication of identifying information all because she posted a picture of a hyper-link to Facebook.
KelleyandDerek.com started this petition to Crown Prosecutor Julie Scott
https://www.change.org/p/crown-prosecutor-julie-scott-drop-all-charges-against-kelley-denham
A hyperlink by itself, should never be seen as “publication” of the content to which it refers. Only when a hyperlinker presents contents from the hyperlinked material in a way that actually repeats the content, should that content be considered to be “published” by the hyperlinker;hyperlinks are, in essence, references which are fundamentally different from other acts of publication. http://harvardlaw74.com/hyperlink-is-not-publication-rules-the-supreme-court-of-canada/
Would you consider your information safe and secure if all someone had to do was delete a portion of the address, hit enter and there it all is going back years?
Maybe in the TWILIGHT ZONE you would...
WHAT CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG?
If "everyone is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than 10 years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who intercepts or ->causes<- to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system," wasn't FCSLLG guilty of committing an offense when Kelley was inadvertently and without intention able to access the information without logging on to FCSLLG'S public information website or FCSLLG's alleged secure portal OR DOES THE LAW SAY SOMEWHERE - UNLESS THEY'RE GROSSLY INCOMPETENT, NEGLIGENT, AND WORK DIRECTLY FOR THE GOVERNMENT?
WOULD THERE BE A TRIAL OR A CLASS ACTION SUIT IF FCSLLG HAD PROPERLY PROTECTED THEIR FORCIBLY INDUCTED CLIENTS INFORMATION..?
"Family and Children's services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville faces $75 MILLION DOLLAR negligence suit."
By Sabrina Bedford, The Recorder and Times. Friday, December 15, 2017.
According to the suit, the personal information of the 285 clients was compiled into an electronic file, prepared for the service’s board of directors on new cases arising between April and November of 2015, but was not properly secured on the agency’s network.
The "highly sensitive" personal information of 285 clients and people being investigated by the Family and Children's Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville was allegedly stolen by a hacker and posted on Facebook due to "reckless" and "disgraceful" conduct of the organization, according to a $75-million class action lawsuit filed today.
Kelly Denham has been dropped as a defendant in the class action.
M.M. v. Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Children’s Aid Society, 2018 ONSC 5032 (CanLII)
[19] The events of the various actions, which attracted the attention of the media in Perth, Ontario, are of interest to the citizens of the East Region, who have an interest in the operation of their local children’s aid societies, but the events are of little more than of prurient interest to the citizens of Toronto.
[20] Ms. Denman, who is the central actor either as a commendable whistleblower or as a deplorable newsmonger and hacker and leaker of confidential information is seriously inconvenienced and possibly prejudiced by having to defend or prosecute the various proceedings in Toronto, where she has been unable to obtain a lawyer to represent her.
[20] Ms. Denman, who is the central actor either as a commendable whistleblower or as a deplorable newsmonger and hacker and leaker of confidential information is seriously inconvenienced and possibly prejudiced by having to defend or prosecute the various proceedings in Toronto, where she has been unable to obtain a lawyer to represent her.
This made the list publicly available to anyone, they said, and in her affidavit Denham explained how she came into possession of the sensitive and confidential documents.
She said she found and clicked on an unrelated document on the website intended for the public. She deleted a portion of the URL, and she was taken to a directory of folders with documents, within which she found the document with the names of local families.
She said she was never asked a username or password and was never faced with any security measures that impeded her ability to access the documents.
She said she attempted multiple times to advise the agency the confidential documents were available on the public website, beginning in February 2016, but the documents were still publicly available by late April 2016. This is when she decided to post the location of the report on the Facebook group where she posted an image of a hyperlink and no client was published on Facebook, which was deleted by the group’s administrator within hours.
http://www.recorder.ca/2017/12/15/fcs-faces-negligence-suit
http://www.smart-biggar.ca/en/articles_detail.cfm?news_id=526
The criminal trial had been previously scheduled to happen through August 8th to the 18th but was canceled after the Perth crown was forced to admit the alleged victim of the hack was unprepared to go to trial and testify after Kelley refused the second of four offers to plead guilty for a slap on the wrist and one request to sign an agreed statement of FCSLLG's version of the facts presented by the crown.
Raymond Lemay, now the head of Family and Children's Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville, told CBC News, "The court process will determine whether there was negligence or not. I think that's the ultimate question."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/family-children-services-facebook-personal-information-1.3546788
Lemay admits the report was on the FCSLLG's website but says it was hidden behind several layers of security including a password given only to the organization's board of directors.
"We suspect it was a hack. It might not have been a sophisticated one," says Mr. LeMay, the organization's executive director and I suspect that is the case," he adds.
"You have to go through the back door. You have to be looking for this," he says. (Funny how Mr Lemay just assumes Kelley was looking for "it" when she found the list with her name on it.)
"The court process will determine whether there was negligence or not." I think that's the ultimate question.
Lemay says the report in question is not "typical" of the work FCSLLG does or the documentation it keeps. He also says the organization has no reason to believe any of its other clients had their personal information compromised.
WHY WASN'T THE DOCUMENT WITH 285 NAMES ON IT NOT TYPICAL OF THE WORK THEY DO?
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Lemay said there was a previous breach of the agency in February which did not involve the release of confidential information. The person responsible was a children’s aid client who has been embroiled in a campaign against the agency, including posting hours-long YouTube videos of her interactions with members of the staff.
WHO IS KELLEY DENHAM?
WHO IS KELLEY DENHAM?
Smiths Falls program helps participants build ‘bridges out of poverty’
Aug 01, 2018 by Evelyn Harford Smiths Falls Record News
The program is based on the work of Ruby Payne, American educator and author known for her work on the culture of poverty, including the invisible rules of the social classes.
“It’s really cool stuff,” said Denham, who has real-world experience dealing with poverty, she realized the effectiveness this program could have on others. “It made a lot of sense to me having been poor, and then not poor, and then poor again, and then not poor.
“I know how hard it is because you’re living day-by-day, you’re just surviving," she said. "You’re not going to think about tomorrow if you don’t know what you’re going to eat today. It’s impossible.”
Before the Bridges out of Poverty program, Denham had been trying to help people on a one-on-one basis. But after seeing a Bridges out of Poverty workshop, put on by Gayle Montgomery, while attending Algonquin College she knew there could be potential to bring the program to town.
“She’s explaining how to get out of poverty and I’m like: ‘That’s exactly what I did. This is the road map. This is how you do it.'”
https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/8773652-smiths-falls-program-helps-participants-build-bridges-out-of-poverty-/
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
In order to get as many people through the door, the Bridges out of Poverty program takes care of everything for their participants — including child care and lunch.
Along with donations from involved agencies, the Bridges out of Poverty program has received donations from Andress’ Independent Grocer and Apple House Art Gallery. Apple House Art Gallery founder, Patricia Mosher, has also volunteered her time to provide the child-care and has developed an artistically-focused curriculum. The Smiths Falls District Collegiate Institute’s hospitality class has provided lunch, while Glad Tidings church in Perth is providing snacks which is likely breakfast for many participants.
The second round of Bridges out of Poverty will start this September. If you would like to participate reach out to Kelley Denham at kelley.denham@altclanark.com.
For more information visit, https://www.ahaprocess.com/.
Evelyn Harford
by Evelyn Harford
Evelyn Harford is the reporter for the Smiths Falls Record News. She can be reached at eharford@metroland.com.
Email: eharford@metroland.com
CAS hacking charges dropped by Crown against Smiths Falls man
NEWS Dec 15, 2016 by Desmond Devoy. Perth Courier.
NEWS Dec 15, 2016 by Desmond Devoy. Perth Courier.
Derek Flegg, 50, of Smiths Falls, has seen the six charges against him in the Children’s Aid hacking case dropped by the Crown prosecutor.
Flegg’s case was last before the Perth court on Monday, Dec. 5, when the charges were dropped. However, the case of his co-accused and partner, Kelley Denham, 28, continues and was last before the Perth court a week later on Monday, Dec. 12.
by Desmond Devoy
Desmond Devoy is the reporter with the Perth Courier. He can be reached at desmond.devoy@metroland.com. Follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
Email: desmond.devoy@metroland.com
Earlier this year, the two were accused of hacking into the Children’s Aid Society’s database. Denham alone now stands accused of:
• Theft under $5,000 (section 334 of the Criminal Code of Canada (CCA);
• Mischief over $5,000 (section 430 (1) of the CCA);
• Mischief of data (section 430 (5) of the CCA);
• Unauthorized use of a computer (section 342 of the CCA);
• Traffic in identity information (section 402.2 (2) of the CCA); and,
• Publication of identifying information (section 85 (3) of the Child and Family Services Act of Ontario.
https://www.insideottawavalley.com/news-story/7022350-cas-hacking-charges-dropped-by-crown-against-smiths-falls-man/
AS OF MAR. 21, 2018 IN ONTARIO'S ALLEGED CAS HACKER CASE THE FOLLOWING CHARGES AGAINST KELLEY DENHAM HAVE BEEN DROPPED.
1) Theft under $5000
2) Traffick in identity Information
2) Traffick in identity Information
1,755 have signed. Let’s get to 2,500!
https://www.change.org/p/
FCSLLG : Annual Report 2016–2017.
Over the course of this year, one unexpected challenge the agency is still managing is related to a whistleblower informing the public to unprotected client information on our privately operated PUBLIC INFORMATION WEBSITE hosted on a US server (about as far from an internal server as you can get) that the agency was using as a sharing platform with other unnamed agencies and to make it easier for board members to access without a password. This challenge has remained an ongoing issue.
The costs associated with this breach and a totally unexpected massive increase in the costs of placements in group homes for the 198 children currently in our care led to an un-forecasted shortfall of about $792,292, though most of the increase is in the still mounting costs of stalling tactics, dirty tricks and corrupt lawyer fees in the upcoming $75 million dollar class action lawsuit - and this after many many years of generating enormous surpluses that we feel more than makes up for this unfortunate situation.
We continue to collude and collaborate with appropriate partners in the cover up and will continue to do so until all aspects of this matter are secretly resolved in the months ahead.
Any parties interested in reading the technical reports provided by FCSLLG's own expert on what really happened may not request or view the technical documents and you'll just have to take our word for what happened till it's revealed in the lawsuit.
There has also been much change in our management team with about half of the service managers being recently demoted and transferred away from front line positions.
Our leadership development activities are geared to prepare internal succession after no one answered our job "opportunities" ad, and all new managers have been in direct services with our organization – thus there is change but also continuity.
Over the past year a few employees have retired, some are off on maternity leave or suddenly left extended vacations while others have left to pursue their careers elsewhere like rats fleeing a sinking ship.
About 70% of our Family Services workers have less than 2 years of experience with the organization or anything beyond a general two year diploma in social work. The agency's other service functions have proven more stable though we're unable to say what they are.
Also the agency has preemptively requested that the Ministry of Child and Youth Services conduct a financial review.
FCSLLG : Annual Report 2016–2017:
https://www.fcsllg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/FCSLLG-Annual-Report-2016-2017.pdf
#BASICINCOME
Information on all public sector organizations, covered under the Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act.
Family and Children's Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville. Perth Ontario.
FCSLLG Executive Director Lemay Raymond $194,498.98 ($9,123.92 per hour?)
Brown Derrick $101,674.15 ($158.34 per hour) FCSLLG Human Resources Manager
Eastwood Jennifer $116,121.74 $140.07 FCSLLG Director of Corporate Services
Edmundson Nicola $101,143.12 $158.34 FCSLLG Senior Counsel
Fleet Michael $106,097.47 $158.34 FCSLLG Director of Service
Harper Penny $101,610.27 $158.34 FCSLLG Manager of Finance
Jonkman Debbie $104,048.11 $927.59 FCSLLG Service Manager
Knapp-Fisher Cathie $111,006.23 $158.34 FCSLLG Director of Operations and Innovation
Leblanc Dana $102,348.80 $158.34 FCSLLG Service Manager
Marcotte Erin Lee $106,097.47 $158.34 FCSLLG Director of Service
Morrow Cynthia $103,591.80 $158.34 FCSLLG Service Manager
Simon Siju $106,462.80 $158.34 FCSLLG Service Manager
Thomas Stephanie $101,611.80 $158.34 FCSLLG Service Manager
Von Cramon Karynn $112,779.01 $158.34 FCSLLG Manager of Legal Services
https://www.ontario.ca/page/public-sector-salary-disclosure-2017-organizations-no-salaries-disclose
"Still more sunshine around."
By Ronald Zajac, Recorder and Times Monday, April 3, 2017
By Ronald Zajac, Recorder and Times Monday, April 3, 2017
Family and Children’s Services of Lanark, Leeds and Grenville contributed 14 names to the 2016 Sunshine List, led by former director of operations and innovation Kimberley Morrow, who earned $135,132.45 ($158.34 an hour), followed closely by the organization’s executive director Raymond Lemay, at $126,404.79 ($6,271.86 an hour).
Manager of Legal Services Karynn Von Cramon made $111,941.48 ($158.34 an hour).
Director of Corporate Services Jennifer Eastwood earned $114,935.99 ($158.34)
http://www.recorder.ca/2017/04/03/still-more-sunshine-around
https://www.ontario.ca/page/public-sector-salary-disclosure-2017-organizations-no-salaries-disclose
This page was published under a previous government and is available for archival and research purposes.
Expenditure Estimates for the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (2017-18)
The 2017-2018 Expenditure Estimates set out details of the operating and capital spending requirements of the Ministry of Children and Youth Services for the fiscal year commencing April 1, 2017.
Ministry Total operating and capital including consolidation and other adjustments (not including assets squirreled away that some might even call it profits..)
$4,443,818,914
$4,401,755,914
$42,063,000
$4,297,356,273
Reconciliation to previously published data
Operating expense 2016-17 Estimates 2015-16 Actual
Total operating expense previously published footnote 1 [1]
$4,313,576,414
Operating expense 2016-17 Estimates 2015-16 Actual
Total operating expense previously published footnote 1 [1]
$4,313,576,414
$4,268,680,356
Government reorganization
Transfer of functions from other ministries
Transfer of functions from other ministries
$55,682,000
$56,529,760
Transfer of functions to other ministries
-
($18,972,500)
Restated total operating expense $4,369,258,414 $4,306,237,616
https://www.ontario.ca/page/expenditure-estimates-ministry-children-and-youth-services-2017-18#section-2
Several models and extended theories of fraud attempt to explain why individuals commit fraud and financial crimes beyond the rationale afforded by the Fraud Triangle. These additional models seek to identify supplementary psychological or sociological antecedents (personality and behavioral characteristics) to describe those tending toward fraud.
At this initial step we relate the Fraud Triangle to the Triangle of Fraud Action and identify an area around the Fraud Triangle where other theories and models are informative. The area around the Fraud Triangle, Individual Characteristics—Measures, Constructs, and Combinations of Hazard, is where we introduce additional behavior and decision models that affect rationalization, perceived opportunity, and financial pressure.
Recent discussions have suggested that the motivations of fraud perpetrators may be more appropriately expanded and identified with the acronym M.I.C.E. (Kranacher et al. 2011):
M : money
I : ideology
C : coercion
E : ego (entitlement)
I : ideology
C : coercion
E : ego (entitlement)
M-I-C-E modifies the pressure side of the Fraud Triangle, as it provides an expanded set of motivations beyond a non-shareable financial pressure. Money and ego appear to be common motivations for fraud. Case histories of Madoff, Stanford, Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Phar-Mor, and ZZZZ Best provide examples where the convicted perpetrator appears to be motivated by ego or entitlement, as well as money.
Ideology is probably a less-frequent motivation for white-collar crime, yet examples come to mind. First, tax evasion, where the perpetrator cites that ‘‘taxes are unconstitutional’’ or ‘‘I pay enough taxes,’’ might be examples.
Coercion describes the condition where an individual is unwilling, but nonetheless pressured into participating in a fraud scheme. As an example, referring again to the Walmart–Coughlin case, Patsy Stephens sued Thomas Coughlin claiming that she was coerced into submitting vouchers and laundering the money through her own bank account.
ACCORDING TO FCSLLG - HOW AND WHERE THE INFORMATION WAS BEING STORED DOESN'T MATTER AND THERE'S NO REASON TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
THERE WAS NO PROBLEM WITH HOW FCSLLG WAS STORING THE INFORMATION UNTIL KELLEY WARNED THE FAMILIES AT RISK AFTER FCSLLG FAILED TO FIX THE PROBLEM AND THE LIBERALS FAILED TO RESPOND TO HER EMAILS.
https://hunchneck.blogspot.com/2018/09/in-paper-entitled-safeguarding-non.html
http://lintangmaharaniiii.blogspot.com/2017/04/fraud-theories-triangle-diamond-mice.html
Lake 88.1 “In Focus”interview with LAO’s Andreas Von Cramon and Nathalie Champagne: Date: April 8, 2014.
Description: Transcript of April 8th, 2014 “In Focus” interview by Bob Perreault from Lake 88.1 FM in Perth and Andreas Von Cramon, Supervisory Duty Counsel Criminal/Family Law and Nathalie Champagne, District Area Director, Ottawa Region.
Anderas von Cramon Supervisory Duty Counsel Family, Criminal Law in Brockville, Lanark, Leeds and Grenville and is married to the CAS in house lawyer for FCSLLG, Karynn Von Cramon.
Anderas von Cramon operates a free family law clinic for families dealing with the CAS out of the courthouse to provide advice to people and to help them to prepare for family law cases, or to try to resolve their family cases outside the court. (sign consent forms and service agreement)
Parents go in praying for competent representation and good advice and instead get someone willing to bill legal aid to guide the parents through the process of having all their rights, dignity and children stipped away from them. According to legal aid right now family lawyers willing to accept legal aid bill an average of $40 000 dollars per case for not filing documents or filing them after the court has already granted the society a supervision order.. Or the society requests the judge order the parents to sign consent or service agreements after the parents have refused to sign anything and the judges oblige the society by ordering the parents to just cooperate.
Anderas von Cramon also gives basic help drafting documents. Basic means what? It means no help swearing in and filing documents or serving the document before the deadline - which means he does less than nothing.
https://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/news/newsarchive/downloads/2014-04-08_In%20Focus%20interview.pdf?t=1495843200036
DEFINITION of 'Protected Cell Company (PCC)'
A corporate structure in which a single legal entity is comprised of a core and several cells that have separate assets and liabilities. The protected cell company, or PCC, has a similar design to a hub and spoke, with the central core organization linked to individual cells. Each cell is independent of each other and of the company’s core, but the entire unit is still a single legal entity.
The basic principle behind cell organization is simple: By dividing the greater organization into many multi-person groups and compartmentalizing and concealing information inside each cell as needed, the greater organization is more likely to survive unchanged if one of its components is compromised and as such, they are remarkably difficult to penetrate and hold accountable in the same way the mafia families, terrorist organizations and the Ontario Children's Aid Societies are.
BREAKING DOWN 'Protected Cell Company (PCC)'
A protected cell company operates with two distinct groups: a single core company and an unlimited number of cells. It is governed by a single board of directors, which is responsible for the management of the PCC as a whole. Each cell is managed by a committee or similar group, with authority to the committee being granted by the PCC board of directors. A PCC files a single annual return to regulators, though business and operational plans of each cell may still require individual review and approval by regulators.
Cells within the PCC are formed under the authority of the board of directors, who are typically able to create new cells as business needs arise. The articles of incorporation provide the guidelines that the directors must follow.
The current hierarchical corporate structures that dominate our economies have been in place for over 200 years and were notably supported and defined by Max Weber during the 1800s. Even though Weber was considered a champion of bureaucracy, he understood and articulated the dangers of bureaucratic organisations as stifling, impersonal, formal, protectionist and a threat to individual freedom, equality and cultural vitality.
Under suspicion: Concerns about child welfare.
Racial (financial) profiling is an insidious and particularly damaging type of discrimination that relates to notions of safety and security. Racial/financial profiling violates people’s rights under the Ontario Human Rights Code (Code). People from many different communities experience racial/financial profiling. However, it is often directed at First Nations, Métis, Inuit and other Indigenous peoples, Muslims, Arabs, West Asians and Black people, and is often influenced by the negative stereotypes that people in these communities face. (see confirmation bias)
To file a human rights claim (called an application), contact the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario at:
If you need legal help, contact the Human Rights Legal Support Centre at:
Toll Free: 1-866-625-5179
TTY Toll Free: 1-866-612-8627
Website: www.hrlsc.on.ca
In 2015, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) began a year-long consultation to learn more about the nature of racial profiling in Ontario. Our aim was to gather information to help us guide organizations, individuals and communities on how to identify, address and prevent racial profiling. We connected with people and organizations representing diverse perspectives. We conducted an online survey, analyzed cases (called applications) at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario that alleged racial profiling, held a policy dialogue consultation, and reviewed academic research. We conducted focus groups with Indigenous peoples and received written submissions. Overall, almost 1,650 individuals and organizations told us about their experiences or understanding of racial profiling in Ontario.
We heard concerns about racial/financial profiling in the child welfare sector, particularly affecting Black and Indigenous families. We heard that systemic racism was perceived to be embedded in this system, and that racial profiling that may take place in this sector targets mothers for over-scrutiny most often.
We heard concerns that racialized and Indigenous parents are disproportionately subjected to surveillance and scrutiny, which contributes to families being reported to children’s aid societies (CASs). We also heard that once a referral to child welfare authorities takes place, families are more likely to have prolonged child welfare involvement, and be more at risk of having their children apprehended. Consultation participants suggested these experiences arise in part from referrers’ and child welfare authorities’ incorrect assumptions about risk based on race and related grounds, and intersections between these grounds and poverty.
Black, Indigenous and racialized children are overrepresented in the child welfare system
There is evidence that Indigenous, Black and other racialized children are overrepresented in the child welfare system when compared to their proportion in the general population. For example, in 2015, the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto reported that African Canadians represented 40.8% of children in care, yet they made up only 8.5% of Toronto’s population. Statistics Canada data from 2011 shows that even though Aboriginal children make up only 3.4% of children in Ontario, they represent 25.5% of children in foster care. Research from 2003 indicates that Latino children are overrepresented in cases selected for investigation by Canadian child protection services, as are Asian children when allegations of physical abuse are involved.
Consultation participants described the historical and structural inequalities that give rise to racialized and Indigenous parents having greater involvement with child welfare authorities. Some survey respondents highlighted the “Sixties Scoop” – the mass apprehension and removal of Indigenous children from their families and communities by Canadian child welfare authorities dating back to the 1960s.
There are likely many factors leading to these disproportionate representations and, on their own, they do not conclusively point to discrimination. However, overrepresentation of certain racial groups in the child welfare system may be one indicator of systemic discrimination, including systemic racial profiling.
Systemic racial profiling refers to patterns of behaviour, policies or practices that are part of an organization’s or sector’s structure, which create a position of relative disadvantage for racialized and Indigenous peoples. These policies, practices or behaviors may appear neutral, but may result in situations where racialized or Indigenous peoples tend to be singled out for greater scrutiny or negative treatment.
Although many different issues could lead to involvement by child welfare authorities, biased referrals and biased decision-making among these services may play a role.
Concerns about risk assessment standards and tools
Consultation participants raised concerns about bias in the tools and standards used to assess risk to children. Although they seem neutral, we heard that risk assessment standards and tools may lean towards more positive outcomes for White people. (see confirmation bias)
Social work researchers argue that risk assessment tools in Ontario are biased and perpetuate racism because they do not account for structural inequalities, such as racial discrimination, that may affect a child’s well-being. Parents may be blamed for these external factors, even though they are largely out of their control. We heard that relying on these tools, coupled with worker bias – which may be conscious or unconscious – may contribute to assumptions about racialized children and families being “inherently wrong or deficient.” This can lead to incorrect assumptions about the level of risk children are exposed to.
(see confirmation bias)
We also heard concerns about risk assessment standards that relate to poverty – for example, the number of children allowed per bedroom. Poverty in racialized and Indigenous families may be seen as a sign of neglect, providing a basis for a child welfare agency to become involved. We heard that these standards can affect what is seen as acceptable in a home and contribute to CAS decisions to intervene. (see confirmation bias)
It is unclear to what extent child welfare risk assessment standards and tools reflect real risk to children in all cases, or arise from White, Western, Christian middle-class norms. When standards and tools are not based on objective factors, but on the cultural norms of the dominant group, they may contribute to racial profiling. (see confirmation bias)
Concerns about biased decision-making
Concerns were also raised both about the perceived bias of authorities or individuals that refer to CASs, and perceived bias in decision-making practices when child welfare workers and authorities become involved with families. Participants said that child welfare workers, many of whom are White, may be more likely to construe family situations or the actions of Indigenous or racialized people as “risky.” (see confirmation bias)
The Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) identified that Indigenous families experience “intense scrutiny of [their] ways of life” (for more information, see the full OHRC report, Under suspicion: Research and consultation report on racial profiling in Ontario). We repeatedly heard that non-Indigenous child
Welfare workers often do not understand the nature or structure of Indigenous families and cultural differences in how families live. For example, they only see that children are not being raised by their parents or are living in what they think are over-crowded conditions. In another example, Indigenous youth told us that they are sometimes put into care because they miss a lot of school due to practicing their traditions and taking part in ceremonies.
Social work researchers talked about some of the factors that may contribute to the over-scrutiny of Black parents, and the tendency to view Black parents as risks to their children and in need of intervention by CASs. For example, researchers note that child welfare authorities commonly view Black parents as “aggressive” and “crazy” when they are externalizing resistance, grief, fear or shame. They also note that Black children are perceived as needing “rescuing” from their parents. As well, we heard how Black families may be reported to CAS because their children eat non-Western foods that are specific to their culture.
Ways to address concerns about racial profiling in child welfare
Preventing and addressing racial profiling is a shared responsibility. Government, child welfare organizations and other responsible organizations must take concrete action and decisive steps to prevent, identify and respond to racial profiling. (see confirmation bias)
The OHRC has made many recommendations over several years to address racial profiling. These recommendations are included in our report, Under suspicion. Where applicable, they should be used to identify how racial profiling may be taking place in the child welfare system. They also identify specific approaches organizations should use to prevent and address racial profiling.
Overall, consultation participants agreed with the following broad strategies to prevent and address racial profiling:
Anti-bias training
Developing policies, procedures and guidelines
Effective accountability monitoring and accountability
mechanisms, including:
complaint procedures
disciplinary measures
collecting, analyzing and reporting on data
Holistic organizational change strategy
Leadership
Communication (external and internal)
Engagement with affected stakeholders.
The OHRC is also very concerned that the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous children in the child welfare system is a possible indicator of systemic racism. We conducted a public interest inquiry to examine this issue. We requested that CASs across the province provide us with data on race and other information. In the preliminary analysis of the data, we found that for many CASs across the province, African Canadian and Indigenous children are overrepresented in care, compared to their census populations.
Next steps
The OHRC will:
Release the results of our public interest inquiry
Develop specific policy guidance to help individuals, community groups and organizations understand how racial profiling can be identified, prevented and addressed in the child welfare sector
Continue to call for the collection of race-based data and data on other Code grounds to better understand if racial disparities exist in this sector
Continue to work with community stakeholders to enhance public education on racial profiling.
For more information
To find out more about racial profiling in the child welfare and other sectors, the full Under suspicion report is available online at www.ohrc.on.ca.
To file a human rights claim (called an application), contact the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario at:
If you need legal help, contact the Human Rights Legal Support Centre at:
Toll Free: 1-866-625-5179
TTY Toll Free: 1-866-612-8627
Website: www.hrlsc.on.ca
http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/under-suspicion-concerns-about-child-welfare
Just by failing to file the required paperwork by the deadline before a first appearance in family court on a child protection matter will potentially earn a legal aid lawyer a minimum of $40 000 according to legal aid Ontario.
It's almost like the government pays them to stand aside and do nothing.
C.A.S. ATTITUDE: WIN CHILD WELFARE CASES AT ALL COSTS.
By Gene C. Colman of Gene C. Colman Family Law Centre posted in Child Welfare on Thursday, January 1, 2015.
It should not be a matter of "win" or "lose" when it comes to Ontario child welfare law. Ontario's Child and Family Services Act tells us that the paramount purpose is to "promote the best interests, protection and well being of children." One might note the glaring lack of any reference to family. In fact, there is a paucity of references to family throughout the entire CFSA even though many judges recognize the importance of maintaining family whenever possible.
I had a recent experience with CAS counsel at court when representing a family unjustly caught up in the system. Our office had prepared a very persuasive and comprehensive response to the Society's Application. We attended at the mandated five day hearing that follows apprehensions from parental care. The CAS certainly had not expected such forcefulness; normally parents are so overwhelmed at this early stage that they are unable to mount an effective defence. Generally, the court will rubber stamp the CAS requests. We did not agree to just stand idly by at the first appearance and CAS counsel was surprised by our aggressive (yet fair) approach.
Our written material seemed to have persuaded the judge. He instructed the lawyers to prepare a consent endorsement along the lines that we were seeking (which of course included an immediate return of the children to parental care). As we were returning to the courtroom after preparing the consent, the experienced and respected CAS counsel turned to me and my clients and remarked: "This is the third time your lawyer has beaten me."
The CAS counsel's comment was made innocently enough and indeed was intended to be complimentary. But still I was shocked (but probably should not have been). Why was I so shocked?
https://www.complexfamilylaw.com/blog/2015/01/cas-attitude-win-child-welfare-cases-at-all-costs.shtml
Tammy Law's delusional thoughts, excuses, rationalizations and justifications for using the Motherisk test to justify denying parents due process and circumventing the Constitution, the Charter of Rights and the principles of fundamental Justice behind the closed doors of Ontario's family courts.
Posted on February 27, 2018 by tammylaw
After 2 years, and the review of more than 1200 cases, the Motherisk Commission came out with its report yesterday. The Report is required reading for everyone who has any role to play in child welfare – social workers, lawyers, courts, litigants. It describes a system that is dysfunctional, unfair, and undignified. In addition to its criticism of how CASs have handled drug addiction.
The Motherisk Commission details years of rights infringements by courts. "If the same problems were identified in criminal court, there would be a huge public outcry." Tammy Law.
I want to be clear about what I think some of the fundamental problems are and how I think we can start to change this system. Because I am first and foremost a lawyer, my thoughts naturally focus on the role of lawyers in this mess. My thoughts are summarized as follows:
As lawyers, we need to recognize that good intentions are not enough. It is really easy to hide behind “the best interests of the child” and agree or acquiesce to all types of infringements of our clients’ basic human and Charter rights. This needs to stop. Lawyers need to start seeing their role in the context of defending our clients’ very real rights to human dignity and security of the person.
The culture of cooperation has gone too far. While I agree that it is very very important to work with the Children’s Aid Society to address their concerns, a line must be drawn when they demand cooperation that crosses the line. As a state agent, the Society has an obligation to ensure that it works in the most minimally intrusive way possible – respecting the client’s right to individual freedom while trying to ensure that its clients are served. This is a difficult job. Lawyers and courts should be there to ensure that the fine line is respected.
Society counsel need to understand that they have a public interest role. They should be providing advice to their clients in the context of being a public interest litigant. They have a duty to the court to be fair. This means that if unreliable evidence is being tendered (and there were many signs of this with respect to the Motherisk testing), they should be advising their clients about the unfairness of relying on it. Lawyers are and should be gatekeepers of evidence as much as courts are.
We need to be more vigilant. As noted in the report, our role as advocates is to raise every defence possible for our clients.
HOW ABOUT PRESENTING EVIDENCE THAT COUNTERS SWORN AFFIDAVITS WHEN CLIENTS HAVE IT, JUST SAYIN'..
Our clients are often extremely vulnerable, having lived lives that were challenged by multiple obstacles. Many have made admirable attempts to parent their children. We need to be fearless in our advocacy for them. As a lawyer, I have experienced and seen derisive, sarcastic, or rude comments directed at myself and other lawyers who attempt to defend their clients. This needs to stop. It’s our client’s right – their children’s right – that they have a full defence.
http://www.tammylaw.ca/2018/02/27/report-of-the-motherisk-commission/
A corrupt agency aided and abetted by a corrupt provincial court is a travesty of justice for Canadians an insult to the judicial system, to the constitution of Canada, and to life, liberty, and justice for all.
It results in tyranny, oppression, and absolute despotism of the people. There is no greater criminal than the criminal that sits on the bench robbing children of their FAMILY HERITAGE .
Confirmation bias, also called confirmatory bias or myside bias, is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms one's preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
Although not a formal logical fallacy, confirmation bias is simply the tendency for individuals to favor information or data that support their beliefs. It is also the tendency for people to only seek out information that supports their a priori, or pre-existing, conclusions, and subsequently ignores evidence that might refute that pre-existing conclusion.
Technically, confirmation bias is a type of cognitive bias and a form of selection bias, which seeks data that confirm the hypothesis under study.
Avoiding confirmation bias is an important part of rationalism. The scientific method, itself, was developed to remove biases. In science, it is achieved by setting up problems so that you must find ways of disproving your hypothesis (falsifiability: A statement, hypothesis, or theory has falsifiability (or is falsifiable) if it can be proven false by contradicting it with a basic statement or observation.)
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"From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act."
Since it began operations in 2000, the OCSWSSW has worked steadily to address the issue of child protection workers. Unfortunately, many CASs have been circumventing professional regulation of their staff by requiring that staff have social work education yet discouraging those same staff from registering with the OCSWSSW.
The new regulation was updated to only require Local Directors of Children’s Aid Societies to be registered with the College so it's up to all of us now to encourage the employees of the children's aid societies that enter family homes, schools and hospitals to be registered and their credentials checked before they are allowed to enter said places.
The majority of local directors, supervisors, child protection workers and adoption workers have social work or social service work education, yet fewer than 10% are registered with the OCSWSSW.
Meet Kim Morrow: Former unregistered director of service FCSLLG.
https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesUnitedOntario/videos/499149713628131/
Meet Lesley Wollenschlager: Unregistered child protection social worker.
https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesUnitedOntario/videos/504782689731500/
IN A HISTORIC MOVE THE ONTARIO COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK JOINS THE FIGHT TO REGULATE THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETIES.
If you have any practice questions or concerns related to the new CYFSA, please contact the Professional Practice Department at 416-972-9882 or 1-877-828-9380 or email practice@ocswssw.org.
Submission-re-Proposed-Regulations-under-the-CYFSA-January-25-2018. OCSWSSW May 1, 2018
https://www.ocswssw.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/OCSWSSW-Submission-re-Proposed-Regulations-under-the-CYFSA-January-25-2018.pdf
WHO WOULD BE AFFECTED ACCORDING TO CUPE?
The report, Towards regulation: Child protection and professional regulation in the province of Ontario, notes that the CAS workforce has expanded beyond social workers since 2000 to include child and youth workers and those with general degrees and diplomas. A 2013 OACAS survey found that only 70% of relevant job classifications would qualify for registration with the College of Social Workers. CUPE members working as child protection workers could suddenly without any kind of warning be deemed unqualified if they could not register with the College of Social Workers.
Social Work and Social Service Work Act, 1998, SO 1998 ... - Ontario.ca
IMPACT ON STAFF?
It is unfair and unjust that staff who are currently deemed qualified by the society to do their work, some of whom have decades of on-the-ground experience ruining lives, would suddenly and arbitrarily be deemed unqualified.
"If the employers (government) are moving forward with professional regulation, it’s likely they will bring this issue to the next round of collective bargaining so CUPE members (unqualified child protection social workers) will have to be prepared to fight."
The report also notes that the “clearest path forward” would be for the provincial government to legislate the necessity of professional regulation, which would be an appallingly heavy-handed move.
AND DRAGGING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES THROUGH THE FAMILY COURTS WASN'T HEAVY-HANDED?
http://joincupe2190.ca/files/2015/10/Professional-regulation-at-childrens-aid-societies.pdf
Silenced, discredited, stripped of powers of moral appeal, and deprived of the interpersonal conditions necessary for maintaining self-respect and labeled "disgruntled" many people suffer from serious but subtle forms of oppression involving neither physical violence nor the use of law.
Civilized Oppression and Moral Relations: Victims, Fallibility, and the Moral Community.
In Civilized Oppression J.Harvey forcefully argues for the crucial role of morally distorted relationships in such oppression. While uncovering a set of underlying moral principles that account for the immorality of civilized oppression, Harvey's analyses provide frameworks for identifying morally problematic situations and relationships, criteria for evaluating them, and guidelines for appropriate responses. This book will be essential for both graduates and undergraduates in ethics, social theory, theory of justice, and feminist and race studies.
This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the hurt and marginalization that stem from civilized oppression.
https://books.google.ca/books/about/Civilized_Oppression_and_Moral_Relations.html
Ontarians have a right to assume that, when they receive services that are provided by someone who is required to have a social work degree (or a social service work diploma) — whether those services are direct (such as those provided by a child protection worker or adoption worker) or indirect (such as those provided by a local director or supervisor) — that person is registered with, and accountable to, the OCSWSSW.
The new regulation was updated to only require Local Directors of Children’s Aid Societies to be registered with the College so it's up to all of us now to encourage the employees of the children's aid societies that enter family homes, schools and hospitals to be registered and their credentials checked before they are allowed to enter said places.
The absence of a requirement for CAS child protection workers to be registered with the College: ignores the public protection mandate of the Social Work and Social Service Work Act, 1998 (SWSSWA); avoids the fact that social workers and social service workers are regulated professions in Ontario and ignores the College’s important role in protecting the Ontario public from harm caused by incompetent, unqualified or unfit practitioners; allows CAS staff to operate outside the system of public protection and oversight that the Government has established through professional regulation; and fails to provide the assurance to all Ontarians that they are receiving services from CAS staff who are registered with, and accountable to, the College.
The existing regulations made under the CFSA predated the regulation of social work and social service work in Ontario and therefore their focus on the credential was understandable.
However, today a credential focus is neither reasonable nor defensible. Social work and social service work are regulated professions in Ontario.
Updating the regulations under the new CYFSA provides an important opportunity for the Government to protect the Ontario public from incompetent, unqualified and unfit professionals and to prevent a serious risk of harm to children and youth, as well as their families.
As Minister Coteau said in second reading debate of Bill 89, "protecting and supporting children and youth is not just an obligation, it is our moral imperative, our duty and our privilege—each and every one of us in this Legislature, our privilege—in shaping the future of this province."
The ministry sidestepped a question emailed by the Toronto Star on whether it would impose the requirement to register their 5000 plus employees with the College of Social Work, stating instead that it is funding the authorization process and leaving the society to police themselves with secret internal processes.
BETWEEN HOW THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY WAS USING THE MOTHERISK AND HOW THE TEST WAS CONDUCTED JUST HOW BAD WAS THE MOTHERISK DRUG TEST?
MOTHERISK?
So what exactly is the controversy?
As it turns out, for more than two decades Motherisk performed flawed drug and alcohol testing on thousands of vulnerable families across Canada, skewing decisions in over 35,000 child protection cases leading to apprehensions and thousand of files left open as parents were forced to sign consent forms and service agreements.
According to Toronto Star/Fifth Estate article out of the cases they reviewed Motherisk tests came back positive 93% of the cases..
What an amazing funding tool that is... ! The results they wanted when they wanted them.
Families were torn apart. As Susan Lang, the independent reviewer who investigated the scandal, said: “losing your child is the capital punishment of child protection law.”
What went wrong? Lang’s report exposed a litany of flaws in how Motherisk conducted its tests. The picture that emerges, very clearly, is a case of flawed process, not flawed science.
https://blog.cansfordlabs.co.uk/the-drug-and-alcohol-testing-blog/5-reasons-why-the-motherisk-scandal-shouldnt-happen-again
1. The tests were preliminary
The tests performed by Motherisk relied on the unconfirmed results of its enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay (ELISA) tests.
ELISA is often used as a screening tool before more in-depth tests are undertaken. It can be used in toxicology as a rapid presumptive screen for certain classes of drugs. It’s useful if you need to screen a large number of samples when the presumption that only a small percentage will test positive. But it’s not definitive and the results can be erroneously interpreted.
The Motherisk Lab did not follow-up its presumed positive ELISA results with follow-on in-depth tests. Therefore, the results simply could not be relied upon to provide the absolute certainty needed.
As Craig Chatterton, a forensic toxicologist and a proponent of hair sample testing, correctly explains in the CBC report on Motherisk, a preliminary test like ELISA can be spot on - but, tragically for the families implicated, it can be 100% incorrect, too.
Susan Lang’s report went on to say "No forensic toxicology laboratory in the world uses ELISA testing the way MTDL [Motherisk] did."
2. Motherisk had no written standard operating procedures
Having standard, professional operating procedures in place is one of the central pillars of any testing environment, not just hair sample testing.
In this regard, Motherisk failed egregiously. The Lang report found no evidence of any written standard operating procedures at Motherisk. This raises serious doubts about the reliability and, crucially, the standardisation of its testing procedures.
Both forensic and clinical laboratories should have standard operating procedures in place for each of the tests they perform. Motherisk had no clear, documented procedures which means the processes could have varied substantially in each individual case, calling into question, rightly, the integrity of the lab’s results.
3. No transparency.
Motherisk’s next misstep was the lack of formal process and documentation meant that it was almost impossible for any third party to robustly assess its results.
When the entire process isn’t adequately captured, it becomes easy for the lab to skirt over anomalies and simplify conclusions.
At Cansford Labs, for instance, we share the evidence in full. This is an absolutely vital component when the test will be involved in a highly sensitive matter like child custody.
The fact that Motherisk offered no insight into how its results were arrived at beggars belief.
4. Inadequate training and oversight
(same as it is in the Ontario children's aid society)
The inadequacy and transparency issues within Motherisk seeped all the way into the employees at the lab.
From reading the Lang report, Motherisk scientists were operating without any forensic training or oversight. The ELISA tests were inadequate, but even if they weren’t, the individuals interpreting the results weren’t properly trained.
Nobody at Motherisk, including, rather incredibly, Dr. Koren himself, had the proper training.
The lack of training manifested in all manner of amateurish mistakes. Staff routinely failed to wash hair samples before analysis, for example. One mother tested positive for alcohol because her alcohol-laced hairspray had not been washed off the sample. With the right training and process, these issues could easily have been avoided.
5. A compromised chain of custody
In the CBC report into Motherisk, one mother recalls how her second test was conducted after she disputed the first test’s results: “With my second test, the hair was done in the social worker’s office with the scissors out of her desk, tape off her desk and cardboard from the trash.”
Her sample tested positive for crystal meth, but laughably when she next saw her “hair sample”, the hair that allegedly belonged to her was longer and a different colour.
It should go without saying, but any robust testing process requires professionalism throughout. It’s not just about testing the sample, but also about how the sample is collected and treated.
The chain of custody is of paramount importance. Trusted professionals need to be present at every stage of the process, guided by the lab that will do the testing, and the procedures need to be the same for every single case.
Was Motherisk an aberration?
How is the society managed to choose to use exclusively the only lab in Canada performing a totally fake test with fake experts?
When things go as wrong as they did at Motherisk, it’s important not to stick our heads in the sand. Especially when it involves vulnerable individuals.
But Motherisk was an aberration. A tragic and disastrous aberration???
Minus all the secrecy to protect the privacy of child and their families could this travesty of justice have continued for over two decades if the was secrecy wasn't doing more to protect the culprits in this these heinous acts of large scale child poaching?
The science of hair sample testing remains a powerful tool when the analysis is done correctly, appropriately, with quality control and assurances and interpreted by "qualified experts" depending on who your willing to trust..
Indeed, it’s only right that for vulnerable individuals, that nothing but the best will do.
A fact that Motherisk seemingly forgot.
EVERYTHING CONNECTED TO ONTARIO'S CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY SEEMS TO LACK ANY OVERSIGHT, TRAINING OR EVEN PROPER CREDENTIALS..
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/after-motherisk-report-sick-kids-needs-some-serious-self-reflection/article28117696/
Reasonable grounds for suspicion refers to the information that an average person, using normal and honest judgment would need in order to be suspicious.
The audio in the video is a copy of the non emergency call obtained through the freedom of information act that sent three police officers racing through the streets of Smiths Falls one beautiful Monday morning about three years ago. This first video explains how my family became involved with FCSLLG and why.
https://unpublishedottawa.com/letter/51317/im-minimally-happy-my-service-three-cops-and-social-worker-interview-examined
AND THEN THIS
Here's an "apology" letter from FCSLLG's former director of service, Kim Morrow that doesn't really apologize, it actually blames us for everything they did wrong and it doesn't excuse the not so veiled threats to remove our children if we failed to cooperate fully without telling us what their concerns were
This audio is a compilation of the legal advice I got from my legal aid lawyer during our court involvement with FCSLLG. As he says, "a good game of chicken" and guess who won.
Sorry, no idea why the audio dropped. you can listen to it here:
https://www.facebook.com/FamiliesUnitedOntario/videos/517416991801403/
A YEAR LATER
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS STORY NOW IS FCSLLG CLAIM IN THE $75 MILLION DOLLAR CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST THEM THEY HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH LAUNCHING OR INFLUENCING THE KINGSTON CAS INVESTIGATION AND THEIR TRUMPED UP CONCERNS THAT LEAD TO THE KINGSTON CAS REPAYING $750 DOLLARS OF THE $800 DOLLARS WE USED TO RETAIN MR ROGERS FOR NEEDLESSLY BRING US TO COURT AFTER MY WIFE AND I HAD BEEN ACCUSED OF HACKING FCSLLG'S SECURED WEB PORTAL.
MEET SUN WAI UNREGISTERED CHILD PROTECTION SOCIAL WORKER IN THIS CANDID CAMERA VIDEO.
This isn't another video full of disgruntled parents, it's an educational video - we won..
Sun Wai, a University of Guelph graduate that has a BA in criminal justice and public policy who went on to become an another UNREGISTERED child protection social worker for Family and Children's Services of Frontenac, Lennox and Addington in Ontario. Sun Wai failed to investigate objectively, took a biased position throughout, and failed to reassess and adjust her position as she had a statutory duty to do when faced with information that did not support her original position or her sworn affidavit. Listen as Sun Wai explains the children's aid society's anti-oppressive policy.
What The Police And The Children's Aid Society Didn't Find.
All the things the children's aid society and the police have never found in our home any of the many times they've found opportunities to search it. They've never found any signs of any illicit activities at all and no foul minded troll has ever seen any in any our videos or facebook pictures.
They didn't find drug paraphernalia, or a mountain of empty booze bottles, or drugs - legal or illegal, no drug labs or grow operations, no booze or heaping ashtrays and piles of trash or rotten food festering on the dirty dishes in the sink, or unwashed, unclothed children eating from dirty plates, or children whose medical needs aren't being cared for, or signs of violence or guns or stolen property or stolen cars parked in our driveway or unexplained piles of money, and they haven't found people coming and going or parties to the wee hours of the night and drunken fights like they find in so many other homes in Smiths Falls and before Kelley blew the whistle on FCSLLG for their complete lack of security and common sense running their own website, we had no criminal involvement with police or any matters before the court and we live in a good neighborhood.
https://unpublishedottawa.com/letter/190623/what-police-and-childrens-aid-society-didnt-find
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