Advocates for family preservation against unwarranted intervention by government funded non profit agencies and is a growing union for families and other advocates speaking out against the children's aid society's funding strategies and current corrupt practices to achieve the society's funding goals under Wynne's liberals.
Child protection social workers often seem to side with the bad parent who is more than willing to accept the workers "protection" and praise. In Ontario the bad parent is more likely to sign a service agreement to keep that protection and consent forms that allows the society to gather the child's school/medical information without any real justification and also goes a long way toward meeting the society's funding goals.
Families United is a union for families in Lanark, Leeds and Grenville counties, dedicated to protecting the rights of children and their families. We are an alternate form of help and support that is NOT mandated to apprehend children.
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Families United recognizes the hard work and commitment it takes to work in the child protection field. However, errors and service gaps are possible and when this occurs, concerned parents can be the best advocates for their children.
As the law in Ontario stands now clients of the Ontario children's aid society under Wynne's liberals are routinely denied a timely (often heavily censored) file disclosure before the court begins making decisions and the clients can not request files/disclosure under the freedom of information act nor can censored information reviewed by the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario or the federal counter-part.
According to Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk, not one of the child-protection investigations her office reviewed was done within the required 30 days. Instead, the cases took an average of more than seven months.
In 2006, the auditor said that in about half the files reviewed, the full investigation was not completed within the required 30 days of referral.
In 2015, the auditor said not a single child protection investigation was completed within the required 30 days of being notified of concerns.
Why complete an alleged investigation when you can just take the family to family court and get a supervision order or just apprehend more long term funding with a sworn affidavit and no supporting documentation?
Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a constitutional provision that protects an individual's autonomy and personal legal rights from actions of the government in Canada as represented by a government funded children's aid society, a government funded court and government funded legal aid lawyers.
This Charter provision provides both substantive and procedural rights. It has broad application beyond merely protecting due process in administrative proceedings and in the adjudicative context. Procedural law or adjective law comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings.
The rules are designed to ensure a fair and consistent application of due process (in the U.S.) or fundamental justice (in other common law countries) to all cases that come before a court.
Canada's legal system is based on a heritage that includes the rule of law, freedom under the law, democratic principles and due process. Due process is the principle that the government must respect all of legal rights a person is entitled to under the law and I would assume receiving a full disclosure before any court starts rendering decisions is covered by due process and the right to defend yourself, a federal right that is routinely violated in the family courts under Wynne's Ontario liberals.
In Canadian and New Zealand law, fundamental justice is the fairness underlying the administration of justice and its operation. The principles of fundamental justice are specific legal principles that command "significant societal consensus" as "fundamental to the way in which the legal system ought fairly to operate", per R v Malmo-Levine. These principles may stipulate basic procedural rights afforded to anyone facing an adjudicative process or procedure that affects fundamental rights and freedoms, and certain substantive standards related to the rule of law that regulate the actions of the state (e.g., the rule against unclear or vague laws).
The degree of protection dictated by these standards and procedural rights vary in accordance with the precise context, involving a contextual analysis of the affected person's interests. In other words, the more a person's rights or interests are adversely affected, the more procedural or substantive protections must be afforded to that person in order to respect the principles of fundamental justice. A legislative or administrative framework that respects the principles of fundamental justice, as such, must be fundamentally fair to the person affected, but does not necessarily have to strike the "right balance" between individual and societal interests in general.
The term is used in the Canadian Bill of Rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and also the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Fundamental justice, although closely associated with, is not to be confused with the concepts of due process, natural justice, and Wednesbury unreasonableness.
Former Privacy Commissioner of Ontario highlights a glaring omission in provincial and federal privacy laws, neither of these laws cover children’s aid societies.
In 2013, the former Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Anne Cavoukian, called on government to pass new legislation that would require oversight from the privacy commissioners offices in order to ensure that the sensitive data being managed by these agencies was being properly handled and secured. She was ignored.
Without the oversight of the commissioners offices, the organizations are not bound by the same privacy laws and data security regulations that govern other public institutions.
