Alberta Liberal leader Raj Sherman calls on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to launch a public inquiry into the disproportionate number of deaths of First Nations, Metis and Inuit children-in-care in Alberta. The letter was prompted by a joint Edmonton Journal-Calgary Herald investigation that found 145 children have died in care in Alberta since 1999 - triple the number reported by the province. The investigation also revealed that aboriginal children account for 78 per cent of deaths of child-in-care in Alberta.
Alberta Liberal leader Raj Sherman calls on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to launch a public inquiry into the disproportionate number of deaths of First Nations, Metis and Inuit children-in-care in Alberta. The letter was prompted by a joint Edmonton Journal-Calgary Herald investigation that found 145 children have died in care in Alberta since 1999 - triple the number reported by the province. The investigation also revealed that aboriginal children account for 78 per cent of deaths of child-in-care in Alberta.
Alberta Liberal leader Raj Sherman calls on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to launch a public inquiry into the disproportionate number of deaths of First Nations, Metis and Inuit children-in-care in Alberta. The letter was prompted by a joint Edmonton Journal-Calgary Herald investigation that found 145 children have died in care in Alberta since 1999 - triple the number reported by the province. The investigation also revealed that aboriginal children account for 78 per cent of deaths of child-in-care in Alberta.