In the final part of a CKNW special investigation, reporter Charmaine de Silva uncovers how this case highlights why our system is ill-equipped to deal with families at their breaking point.
‘The longest child welfare, civil litigation, family custody fight in the history of Canada’
“If you want to see in one big picture, in one case, all the failures, all the flaws of the system, chronologically almost, you go to this case.”
That was how Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C.’s former children’s watchdog, summed up the case of J.P., her ex-husband B.G., and their four kids. The parents’ names cannot be revealed due to a publication ban.
Turpel-Lafond called their case the “longest child welfare, civil litigation, family custody fight in the history of Canada.”
bit.ly/2C5T2CN via @globalnews
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