Canada Needs To Share Its Troubling Story Of Child Detention

Torys Quarterly: The Cross-Border Update

Separating children from their families is immoral and inhumane.

It is shocking that anyone has to write that sentence. And shock only begins to describe reactions to the crisis in the U.S. For many Canadians, the recent turmoil around the Trump Administration's "zero tolerance policy" and the thousands of children that are still left separated from their parents after an executive order ended that policy has defied belief.

What has been ignored by the Trump Administration is the fact there are two equal wrongs defining this crisis: family separation and child detention.

Hearts all over Canada were broken by the unspeakable sights and sounds of babies and children being torn from their parents and kept in cages. #EndFamilySeparation became the banner cry on social media as many Canadians issued desperate pleas to our southern neighbours and allies. Federal court orders to reunite families and ban the