Shouldn’t the real question and focus be on why these kids are entering the system at such a high rate?

Some people feel that everything is the government’s fault.

Shouldn’t the parents that can’t or won’t look after their kids take some responsibility too?

It’s a good thing the government is around to pick up the slack when the family can’t, otherwise the stories that come out in the media would be more the rule than the exception.

Hmmm so what is Teegee doing to stem the numbers of aboriginal needing this type of care? Seems the aboriginal community could do more for their own people than just make it the “governments” problem. What is the point of preserving their own culture and being autonomous if it means someone else still has to be tasked with the responsibility of their well being?
Perhaps a “modified diet” hunger strike until PM Harper agrees to meet with him to discuss spending more tax dollars trying to cure the symptoms but not solve the problem

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Well put.

What has been happening with the millions of dollars of funding for the Aboriginal Child and Family Services set up in 2002 or thereabouts? It seems that First Nations are not even capable of taking care of themselves, yet demanding the funds and resources to do so.
BTW, I thought Terry Teegee was the Chief of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council.

The real crisis here is the fact that all these kids are entering the system. Blame the government is getting old now.

Time to make the parents accountable and stop blaming the government. Be it first nation or any others.

Does it not take a village to raise a child? Why do these kids end up in care ? How old are the mothers ?

Great idea. Make the parents accountable. I agree 100%. Now, here’s the problem: how?

On another note, the parents were deemd unfit, so the government took them away to keep them “safe” and if you actually read the report and read of the horrors that occurred while this child was in “care”, you would see that this wasn’t keeping the child safe at all! Quite the contrary! So, who’s to blame here?

Perhaps 27 kids in a group “home” (aka warehouse) was not the answer?

I think its time for forced sterilization. You get one chance if you screw up with the first there should not be an opportunity for a 2nd or 6th. When that said person can prove to be a functioning parent, at that point reverse the procedure.This goes for all races.

“I thought Terry Teegee was the Chief of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council.”

That’s right. He referred to CSTC as “my organization” and Carrier Sekani Family Services by name, as a different organization.

This is a very complex and difficult issue, but a few brief points: (a) there are two factors underlying the high rate of aboriginal children in Ministry care. One is the high level of social dysfunction in the aboriginal community. There no reason to think this has anything to do with traditional culture, and every reason to think that it has to do with racism, poverty, poor education, and especially the abuse experienced in residential schools. The other is arguably an excessive tendency to seize children from aboriginal homes.

(b) it is not the case that the community is doing nothing about this. The most visible activity is of course Carrier Sekani Family Services, but a lot of effort has gone into improving education, reducing alcohol and drug abuse, healing the victims of residential school and so forth.

Not so complex really. These kids needed a foster home and a real family, to get the love and guidance they needed. They got a warehouse where they were one of 27 other needy kids.

Kudos to Pat Bell and Shirley Bond to this business approach to social services, but caring for kids is not like flipping burgers.

Cassie44: I am extremely grateful you aren’t in charge of ANYTHING.

Cassie44. I agree. Though because it is not politically correct, we wil never see it come to light. Which is sad. If a person goes to court for a using an animal, their punishment inudes fines as and they are prohibited from owning an animal for “x” years. As a society, this pleased us and we pride ourselves on speaking for those who can not speak for themselves. When truthfully, we care more for animals them we do the most helpless members of our own society. Our children. We watch idily as child after child is born to parents unfit to care for them….and often have had multiple children already removed from their care.

Having no way of knowing the particulars of every case….what is the criteria for removing a child from a ‘hostile’ environment? I have to wonder with so many native kids in the system if there isn’t a bit of prejudice towards native families by the ministry to begin with….

I’ve seen plenty of non-native families that are plenty screwed up and the kids weren’t taken from them…..

Family disfunction is certainly not exclusively a native issue.

Over represented in prison populations/courts/ministry, and then the race card gets played and puts it all back on whitey.

So is there going to be no accountability for anyone in the social services ministry for any of this? The report clearly lays out many things that staff failed to do but no one ever gets even a reprimand?
I too agreed to terms laid out by them IN COURT one time, only to have then not dodo wht they said they would do. I wouldn’t have agreed if I had known their true intentions.