🇨🇦 She was failed 12 times before she was buried

A nine-year-old girl in P.E.I. died after 12 missed opportunities, at least 18 prior reports tied to neglect and abuse, and professionals who were legally required to act but chose bureaucratic self-protection instead. The advocate flatly says Olivia Rodd’s death was preventable, and the details reported are a damning portrait of a state that can micromanage speech, regulate pronouns, and fund endless therapeutic jargon, but somehow cannot protect a child already on its radar.

This is what managerial Canada looks like in practice: child-centred slogans, inter-agency meetings, legal duties on paper, and nobody willing to take responsibility when it counts. Marv Bernstein says staff were more worried about getting in trouble for sharing information than for leaving a child in danger. Of course they were. That is the culture liberal governance breeds: process over courage, liability over duty, system worship over common sense. Trudeau-era Canada loves to lecture citizens about compassion while producing institutions too timid, fragmented, and ideologically sedated to defend the most basic public good of all.

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