Vancouver Sun » Canadian kids denied basic services:
Across the country, hundreds and possibly thousands, of Canadian-born children are being denied access to the most basic services -a home, food, health care and schooling. They are being denied these necessities because their fathers abused their immigrant mothers, their mothers fled the relationship, and the fathers then reneged on promises to sponsor the women for permanent residency. […] Half of the women at that transition house are undocumented. A boy who should be in Grade 2 is among the Canadian-born children living there. He has never gone to school. The B.C. School Act requires that the child’s parent be able to produce proof that they are legally living in Canada. Because his mother has no residency visa, schools require that she pay the equivalent of a foreign student’s fee. But not only is the little boy denied his constitutional right to an education, he’s also not eligible for health care coverage as long as he lives with his mother.”
