No surprise there

Cindy Blackstock and Perry Bellegarde are thrilled with the new Native Child Welfare Agreement just announced.

Of course that's not a surprise because it means they get more money.  There are 40,000 native children in care at the moment, but instead of hanging their heads in shame, Cindy and Perry seem completely oblivious as to why that is the case!?  Does it not occur to them that these children have been put in foster care for serious reasons?  It's expensive to have children in care so it is not done lightly.  There have to be good reasons.  But the media daren't point this inconvenient fact out because it would reflect badly on native communities.  Add to this is the fact that the system first tries to find extended family or community care for these children and only places them outside this circle when such care cannot be found.  And there's another reason for that too, by the way.

So, instead of sitting at a press conference and smiling smugly about their "victory", they should ask the basic tough questions of themselves and their people and stop blaming the "system" while taking millions from it.  First in was more money for COVID, now it's more money for child welfare.   

As usual, my thoughts only.