In the middle of a blinding snowstorm, an Edmonton Journal team drove west recently to visit the parents of a First Nations baby who died in care in 2011.
They were not welcomed.
The grieving parents only consented to see the reporter because she had the one thing the government had been denying them for two years.
She knew how their baby lost its life.
The reporter handed them a confidential four-page report, the room fell silent. The parents huddled together, poring over the scant details.
The system had taken away their daughter at birth, and never explained why. Two months later, she was dead and still the callous, dehumanizing silence continued. The parents were denied the autopsy report, the hospital records, all knowledge of the subsequent RCMP investigation.
Knowledge is power, after all, and these are some of the most powerless in our society. (more...)
No comments:
Post a Comment