A Bill was passed in Canada on 1 June which effectively gives the state the power to remove children from their home if their parents do not agree with LGBTQI ideology.
Bill 89, the ‘Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017’ retains the provision in current law that a child who is suffering or ‘at risk of suffering’ mental or emotional harm and whose parents do not provide ‘treatment or access to treatment’ is in need of protection under the law. Michael Coteau, Minister of Child and Family Services, who introduced the Bill, said he sees questioning teenagers’ self-identification as LGBTQI or telling them to change as abuse.
‘I would consider it a form of abuse, when a child identifies one way and a caregiver is saying no, you need to do this differently,’ he said. ‘If it’s abuse, and if it’s within the definition, a child can be removed from that environment and placed into protection where the abuse stops.’
