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Opposition calls on Manitoba government to release review into Tina Fontaine's death

WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Opposition is accusing the governing NDP of sitting on an internal investigation into how a 15-year-old girl in the care of social workers disappeared before her body was found wrapped in a bag in the Red River.

Conservative critic Ian Wishart said the Child and Family Services review into Tina Fontaine’s death could help save the lives of other vulnerable children. Family Services Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross should be making changes to prevent similar deaths instead of keeping the report secret because of privacy concerns, he said.

“We think they’ve been using this privacy issue far too often,” Wishart said. “There are youth at risk. The minister is responsible for these youth. Withholding information that may be of value in terms of reducing the risk to some of these youth is not the way to go.”

http://aptn.ca/news/2015/03/30/opposition-calls-manitoba-government-release-review-tina-fontaines-death/

 

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