A two-part editorial witness on Canadian state-managed Indigenous family separation. From residential schools to provincial child welfare, the Sixties Scoop, birth alerts, and the modern apprehension system — one structural project, rotating through institutional forms.
The TRC closed the schools. The framework they expressed — child transfer, cultural severance, administrative authority over Indigenous family life — did not. It moved. The numbers, two decades into reconciliation, are still moving in the wrong direction.
Social workers are part of the carceral apparatus. The case for understanding Canadian child welfare as family policing — and why naming the role matters more than blaming the individuals inside it.