CHILDREN'S AID UNDER FIRE

There will be a review of "...the Motherisk hair analysis program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto...". This article is in last week's Waterloo Region Record story titled "Children's Aid told to stop hair testing". These tests have been used for years to determine drug and alcohol use in child protection and criminal cases. Last year Ontario's highest court set aside a criminal conviction on the basis of differing expert opinions as to the accuracy of these tests. Once again bureaucrats and judicial authorities have abused science in their quest for courtroom wins at the expense of those with lesser resources.