On litigation against CAS

-----Original Message-----
From: Louise [mailto:malenfant@powersurfr.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 9:58 AM
To: lydia@travel-net.com
Subject: Wrongly accused.htm

Hello again,

... Litigation against child welfare in Canada is a useless proposition, for even when the family wins, the agency keeps appealing as they have unlimited tax payer money to ensure that they are never held accountable for what they do. If a case manages to get to the Supreme Court of Canada, then judges like L'Heureux-Dube always vote in favour of child welfare, so there is no point to litigation at all. Believe me, I have reviewed every child welfare case that has gone to the Supreme Court over the last twenty years to arrive at this dismal conclusion. The only thing this agency responds to is public humiliation. In the case in Winnipeg, I had already hit them where it hurt in the public forum many times on this case, until they didn't want to hear more about it, so they paid the 20G's. Actually, I gave them a lot of credit for doing the honourable thing, as we should do if we want to encourage good behaviour from this morbidly overpowered institution that has risen up quietly in our midst. While the impetus for the establishment of this institution was noble, they now have acquired unlimited power due to the absence of accountability, and now interfere with good families where children are doing well by all indicators, to maintain their relevance in society. It is my view that they bring harm to literally every family and child that they come into contact with.

By the way, while the agency keeps it's secrecy laws to keep us ignorant of what they do, I have no such predelictions. If you want to get a look at a decision which is considered one of the harshest condemnations of a Canadian child welfare agency, the 20 G case is listed as Antonowich v. Thom v. Winnipeg Child and Family Services, or it may be AA v. LT. v Winnipeg CFS. 40 pages of blistering analysis.

Take care,

Louise Malenfant