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On August 2nd 2005, at 11:30 at night, Monica Pomahac-Lansing, a 41 year old, single mother of 3 children, who was dying from leukemia and had less than two weeks left to live, had her children taken away from her by the Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) the Police officer ignored the childrens request to remain with their dying mother and threatened her with arrest if she did not comply. Within hours of having her children taken away, she died without ever seeing her children again.
The Lethbridge Police Service illegally enforced an order that contravened the joint custody divorce agreement between Monica and her ex-husband, and the Domestic Relations Act of Alberta (now known as the Family Law Act).
You can email your comments to the Lethbridge City Police Service at:
kristen.harding@police.lethbridge.ab.ca
Because of her plight and the unrelenting efforts of her sole surviving sister Andrea Glover, Monica’s true legacy was guaranteed.
She approached her local Member of Parliament, who then took it upon himself to champion a Private Member’s Bill , named Bill C-252 in the Canadian House of Parliament.
MPs united on an unprecedented scale on March 23,2007 and voted 302-0 to pass a bill ensuring a terminally ill divorced parent death-bed access to children in the custody of the other parent. On May 31, in an historic moment the bill C-252 received royal ent and was read into law.
This film chronicles the tragic events that changed Canadian law.
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