May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

B.A. CYR - DR.EX. (WALSH) MAY 31, 2013
D.L. ROUSSIN - DR.EX. (WALSH)
S.E. TAYLOR - DR.EX. (WALSH)
D.M. KNOL - DR.EX. (WALSH)
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in poverty and we don't seem to, to find that as neglect.
And I think if we were to take care of some of those issues
like housing, poverty, discrimination, all of those issues,
the systemic ones, I think we need to start there in a way
to be able to make big change. So to me, the system should
be charged with neglect sometimes and not our families but
the system should be because it's not taking care of kids'
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basic needs.
The kids that I see, the families are
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working, they are so resourceful in the limited resources
that they have but that level of not being able to feed
their kids well, dress their kids well, transportation, all
those costs never seem to go away. They seem to be getting
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bigger.
And so we're not providing enough care to our
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kids, and to me -- or the families because kids come with a
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family.
And let's talk about that we need to support
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families at the same time as we support children, and
that's where, as family resource centres, we're able to
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take care of the whole unit.
So I, I want to charge the
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system with neglect, because until they start taking care
of some of those issues and stop blaming the victim for not
being able to take the best care of their children, I, I
just believe that at the bottom of my heart would be one of
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the first steps:
let's talk about adequate housing, let's
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talk about living wages, let's not talk about cutting taxes
and who that benefits, and child credits that we give
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