Aid Society: Crown Ward and Kiwayne Jones

aid society: Among the papers was a nearly-expired permanent residency card and a Jamaican birth certificate no longer considered valid in that country, according to Toronto Star. Despite having lived here since he arrived with his parents at age 10, Jones was not a Canadian citizen. Kiwayne Jones was 21, when, after having spent about a decade moving around foster homes as a Crown ward, he was given some of his documentation by the Children's Aid Society. And he still isn't today. Article Continued Below The lawsuit alleges, among other things, that the government failed in its duties to take all reasonable steps to maintain permanent residency status and pursue and obtain Canadian citizenship for the non-citizen Crown wards in its care, according to a statement of claim filed in Superior Court. He's now the representative plaintiff of a proposed 200-million class-action lawsuit brought against the Ontario government by individuals, who, as non-citizen children, were taken into the care of CAS and made Crown wards. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.