Any system where a "caregiver" is paid $8K/month while absent and irresponsible ... might that set up some red flags, somewhere ???!!! 

A second matter - I am not familiar with the foster care system - but it is my understanding that foster parents do not retain their children for more than a year - some silly rule somewhere. Anybody clarify this ? If that is so it is another idiotic piece of bureaucracy .....

Anyway - this case is an embarrasment to our so called caring Canadian culture.