Child and youth advocate to investigate case of P.E.I.-born boy sent to live with father in Alberta
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — P.E.I.’s youngster and youth advocate has launched an investigation into how the province dealt with the case of a younger boy faraway from his maternal grandmother’s care on the Island and despatched to stay along with his father in Alberta.
The investigation comes after the province’s former director of kid safety apprehended the boy, who was within the care of his grandmother in P.E.I., in 2019. The director of kid safety then alerted his father in Alberta, who was unaware of the kid.
In a call made in December 2021, the Supreme Courtroom of Canada criticized the transfer, finally restoring the trial decide’s ruling to grant everlasting custody and guardianship to the then-four-year-old boy’s maternal grandmother.
The court docket stated that the director’s actions had “successfully tied the court docket’s arms” and that the evaluation of a kid’s greatest pursuits stays the right topic of an inquiry as a part of the court docket’s oversight function.
“The Supreme Courtroom of Canada units the bar in youngster safety issues throughout the nation, and we’ve got a chance to be taught from this resolution to ensure kids’s rights are upheld,” stated youngster and youth advocate Marv Bernstein.
Bernstein’s investigation goals to determine gaps in laws, rules, coverage, procedures and observe which will have affected decision-making within the case and suggest suggestions to handle these gaps.
Following the investigation, Bernstein will report his findings to relations and desk a public report.
