The final report on the death of Tina Fontaine, the 15-year-old girl who drowned in the Winnipeg River five years ago was released today. The reaction? It was everyone's fault but the parents'.
Seriously.
Not once did anyone mention the failure of the parents in this fiasco, who were merely described as "troubled". How about incompetent? How about deadbeat? How about criminally negligent? But no, the police failed, the child welfare system failed, the mental health system....you name it, the rest of us are the problem. I'm so sick of it. And the ridiculous thing was that while they were attacking and blaming everyone but themselves, you could tell it had never even occurred to them to take any responsibility whatsoever. It's incredible!
(I wrote two blogs about this: With their faces hanging out, 2014-09-14; and Am I the only one?, 2018-02-18. Have another read.)
As I have reported, Tina had been released from care and was actually in the custody of her mother who let her wander the inner city of Winnipeg in the middle of the night with her drugging, delinquent friends. Why? Oh, it must be the fault of residential schools. Oh, I forgot, the parents didn't attend one. Well, it must be the fault of her grandparents who attended. Oh, forgot again, they didn't either. We have to go way back to the great-grandparents to pin residential schools on this mess, but they managed it, by gum.
Yep, it was all the fault of "the system", in other words you and me.
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