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CHAPTER 1 [13:01 min]
Apprehensions “The circle – I like to say – it’s magic. And why not let this magic work for children? Because it’s just so
CHAPTER 2 [6:32 min]
CAS doesn’t help “Some people have a belief, that well, if the Children’s Aid Society will help! And, in theory, it should!”
CHAPTER 3 [9:16 min]
Trauma and courts “Apprehension of children should be a last resort, after everything else has failed. But too often it’s
CHAPTER 4 [10:40 min]
Abused in care “Don’t tell anybody or I’ll kill you. Or I’ll kill your sister.”
CHAPTER 5 [3:21 min]
Drugs for profit “The state that its in at present, is just giving money to what I consider to be professional child
CHAPTER 6 [3:58 min]
No love at CAS “They are very boastful of the power they have to destroy families.”
CHAPTER 7 [8:08 min]
Abuse of power “Cross examination to a social worker is like garlic to a vampire.”
CHAPTER 8 [2:25 min]
Funding Formula “The agencies have an incentive to take children away from parents.”
CHAPTER 9 [3:20 min]
Milenium scoop “The government has these children, and these are wards of the government.”
CHAPTER 10 [6:57 min]
CAS destroys lives “They took away my dignity as a person and my parental rights as a mother.”
CHAPTER 11 [8:12 min]
Accountability “They’re gonna fall hard one of these days. You know, karma, what you do to others? It’s gonna come back |
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Featured Topic: The Children's Aid Societies of Ontario: a documentary film, with
ongoing stories contributed on this website by the public.
For parents with children under the age of 16, the Ontario Children's Aid Society (CAS) is the most powerful agency in Ontario. Its mandate is to protect the lives of abused children and orphans. The province's caring public has spared no measure to protect its children by empowering the agency with laws and money that enable it to execute the people's will and do its job effectively.
Through interviews with witnesses and seasoned experts, this documentary film explores the workings of the CAS. It asks questions fundamental to the blakout project. How are employees of a publicly funded agency using their power? How are children and parents affected by the process? Are there factors that could mitigate a noble and compassionate public initiative to reverse-course? Are your children's lives at stake? Who are the oppressed and what role does money play? Is this a widespread systemic issue? And if so, what is the cost and risk to society? Who is accountable? And finally, if the system is broken, how would you fix it without leaving the vulnerable exposed to harm?
This documentary examines if any child is at risk, regardless of family income,
cultural background or parental investment. It seeks to empower the electorate
to vote for politicians who will competently guard society's children.
Research
is conducted on-camera and a complex subject is examined through a broad 
spectrum of witness stories. Licensed professionals, with years of hands-on
experience, inform, educate and offer critical observations and recommendations.
Elected politicians are put to task in areas of competence and proposed
solutions.
This film is a case study of a publicly funded agency that is not unlike most government agencies in the country. Financed by the public and wielding extraordinary power, employees of these organizations can affect lives in areas where the stakes are often the highest.
FROM THE TRANSCRIPTS
[ ASK THE WITNESS ]
One of the other points I'd like to make is implementing a standard of parenting. Often what happens, is the society wants to impose a standard of parenting that is inappropriate to many people. They're poor! They're marginalized. We can't impose that standard on them.
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