Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond: Minister Stephanie Cadieux

Minister Stephanie Cadieux: Children's Minister Stephanie Cadieux said Wednesday that various anti-violence groups were consulted as part of a three-year plan to provide new and enhanced services for vulnerable women and kids, according to Huffington Post. A report by children's representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond found the children in the Merritt case, aged five to 10, could have been saved if B.C. had an effective domestic violence prevention program and The B.C. government is developing a domestic violence program that would include specific approaches to help aboriginal, immigrant, refugee and disabled women. The 2008 murders of three children by their mentally father in Merritt, B.C., prompted the government to introduce the new action plan to tackle domestic violence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.