The Judicial System in Canada is Not Effective in Protecting Children

• In 1995, THE HONORABLE JUDGE THOMAS J. GOVE, Commissioner of the inquiry into the adequacy of the services, policies, and practices of the Ministry of Social Services as they relate to the apparent neglect, abuse and death of Matthew John Vaudreuil, was quoted as saying,
• 'The Judicial System is effectively ineffective in protecting children.'
• RCMP CPL. JACQUES DRISDELLE was quoted, in 1995, as saying, in part,
• 'Politicians are expected to be accountable to the public, but Judges are not accountable to anyone under our system. If the law is not enforced, disorder increases. There is no point in legislating anything that the courts are not prepared to enforce with deterrent sentences.'
• FORMER VANCOUVER CITY POLICE CHIEF, RAY CANUEL, was quoted in 1995, as saying,
• 'The Justice System is not working. Criminals laugh at the system while the victims of crime continue to suffer.'
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  ON MARCH 09, 1998, BYRON PRIOR gave full statements to the RCMP in Grand Banks Newfoundland regarding the abuse he and his sisters and brothers had endured at the hands of ALEX T. HICKMAN, BILL MATTHEWS, and others.
• TO DATE, SEVEN YEARS LATER, nothing has been done by the authorities to bring T. Alex Hickman or the other perpetrators to justice. The Priors continue to suffer in silence.
  Over the past two years, Byron has handed out over 4,000 flyers in his home town because the RCMP , the local, provincial and federal authorities have failed to investigate his reports of abuse, as they are mandated by law. Byron has been ostracized from his family, his community and places of employment. He has suffered, and continues to suffer severe loss of income, physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual trauma and his family suffers by his side.