Huffington Post
December 12, 2017
By Hannah Ruuth and Pamela Lovelace
Oh Canada, we deserve a better and stronger future. Listen to our call to action and hear our voices by reading and acting on the recommendations in the Canadian Children’s Charter. While we are thankful Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991, Canada’s inaction for the last quarter century is demoralizing. Canada lags far behind the most wealthy nations when it comes to the well-being of children, due to Canada’s promises made to the most vulnerable in our society but never kept.