Adrian Crook

@5kids1condo

, dad of 5. Co-founder & . Partner . Senior Digital Strategist, Social Purpose . Car-free.

Vancouver, BC
Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2014.

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    prije 4 sata

    In 2017 BC's Ministry of Children & Family Development decided my 5 kids can't ride the bus or be left alone until they are age 10. In Fall 2019 we took the MCFD to Court. We just got our ruling: We lost. Here's why we're confident in our appeal.

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  2. prije 1 sat

    I'll be on with at 3:30pm PT today to discuss this.

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    high time to get on this. Government agency with exceptional authority with no legal recourse for those under its purview. Not cool in any way.

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  4. prije 3 sata

    We've spent $6,000 in the appeal process (over $2K alone for transcripts of the Sept proceeding). My attorneys forecast a total cost of $15,000 for the appeal. I'm hoping to raise some of that via GoFundMe, for those willing/able to contribute:

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  5. prije 3 sata

    Join me in fighting on behalf of all parents. Parents who are cowed into submitting to Ministry decisions - even when those decisions limit their family's legal freedoms with no recourse to challenge. Since 2017, I've heard from many of them.

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  6. prije 3 sata

    So we're appealing! And with confidence, because: - We have a ruling that the MCFD imposed a legal decision on me, with ramifications if I didn't follow it - Their decision exceeded the bounds of the MCFD's statute, as the MCFD's own attorneys admitted during the trial

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  7. prije 3 sata

    Ministry decisions cannot be used as a substitute for proper judicial process, as they have been in my case. The Ministry had no statutory ability or power to make the decision it did.

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  8. prije 3 sata

    The MCFD's statute does not allow their social workers to make legal decisions. If the MCFD wants a legal decision imposed on a parent - with the ramifications I was repeatedly threatened with - they must get a "supervision order" from the court.

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  9. prije 3 sata

    It's crucial to note that 'reasonable' is not the test here. The CFCSA statute is. For instance, while it may be "reasonable" for me to tell you not to run a yellow light, I don't have the power to write you a ticket for it.

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  10. prije 3 sata

    But - and big BUT here - the Judge failed to evaluate MCFD's decision against the statutory powers of the CFCSA, stating only that the MCFD's decision was "reasonable."

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  11. prije 3 sata

    This is positive news, not just for me, but for all BC parents who may seek to legally review a Ministry decision. No, they’re not just recommendations, as the MCFD would prefer they be. They’re judicially reviewable decisions.

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  12. prije 3 sata

    With all that weight behind it, the Judge's January 2020 ruling comes to the very logical conclusion that the MCFD's decision was indeed a legal decision imposed upon me, not merely recommendations.

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  13. prije 3 sata

    In the January 2020 ruling, the Judge sums up the recommendations vs decision issue neatly, saying that I can "hardly ignore the Director [the MCFD]" as doing so might jeopardize my parenting:

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  14. prije 4 sata

    And indeed on several occasions since 2017, the MCFD made veiled threats about removing my children from my care. In one case, backing up their decision by threats of "more intrusive action" I didn't obey. The Judge referenced this threat in his January 2020 ruling.

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  15. prije 4 sata

    In reality, parents agree to these "recommendations," because they're afraid they'll lose their kids if they don't. A point the Judge summarized neatly during the trial, after saying I'd been "cajoled" into agreeing to MCFD recommendations so they could close their file.

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  16. prije 4 sata

    This power imbalance is used by MCFD social workers to impose similar decisions on countless parents, under the guise of "recommendations" that the MCFD asserts are voluntarily agreed to.

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  17. prije 4 sata

    However, the MCFD knows they operate from a position of extreme power. During my trial, MCFD attorney's acknowledged this, stating: "Every parent in British Columbia lives with that fear … that someone will report their parenting to the Ministry."

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  18. prije 4 sata

    MCFD attorneys admitted in court that if this were a decision, it would exceed the bounds of the statute that dictates their powers. The Child, Family and Community Service Act (CFCSA) requires the Ministry to obtain court orders for legal decisions it wishes to enforce.

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  19. prije 4 sata

    During my trial, the Judge picked up on this issue: "How does he bring this matter before a tribunal? In civilized society, when people disagree and the state does something that the citizen doesn't like, there should be recourse..."

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  20. prije 4 sata

    In court, attorneys for the MCFD argued their decision in my case was merely a "recommendation" that I voluntarily followed. They claimed it wasn't a decision at all - and therefore wasn't judicially reviewable.

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  21. prije 4 sata

    In September 2019, I challenged the MCFD's decision in BC Supreme Court, asserting that it: - Exceeded the MCFD's authority (under their statute) - Infringed on my s. 7 Charter rights A huge thanks to my hundreds of supporters as it took all of $45,000 to do this.

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