Indigenous child advocates aren’t surprised that the Manitoba government systematically failed 15-year-old Tina Fontaine, as outlined in a new damning report on the events leading up to her death in 2014.
A scathing report outlining how Manitoba government agencies failed to help 15-year-old Tina Fontaine in the weeks before her death isn’t surprising to Indigenous child advocates.
But Chief is skeptical, saying past plans have been “ego-led” and hadn’t come “from the heart.” She says she prays “every day that someone is going to come in and [take] all the wrongs and make them right somehow.” When people are “down in their lowest point,” Chief says that’s when it’s vital that services “come from a place of love and compassion.”In an interview on CTV’s “Power Play,” Cindy Blackstock, executive director of First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, stressed that the welfare of Indigenous children goes beyond just a “group of people in an office.”
“Canada seems to be pretty lackluster when it comes to some of the most basic things that you think would be in place for a child who’s experienced that kind of trauma in her life,” Blackstock said.
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