Chris Carter released
- Chris Carter was released from custody on February 23, 2021 in Chatham. Photo: danage.com
By Dan Age, danage.com
Thursday February 23 2012 1:46PM Chris Carter has been released into the body of the courts, he looks to the audience that has gathered to observe and shouts “You see what they are doing!?” What they, the courts are doing to Chris Carter is a shame, misuse and waste of the justice system. To understand and appreciate this story you really need to get to know Chris Carter, he is a passionate, loving, and heartbroken father.
I caught up with Chris after the court proceedings and sat down for a cup of coffee with him and one of his Canada Court Watch “family members” as they like to call each other. He opened up to me about the horror story he has gone through with CAS and the Canadian Courts, at some parts he and myself needed a moment to collect our emotions. The injustice that he is fighting is unbelievable and it’s a story everyone needs to hear.
Chris and his Japanese wife Nobuyo decided to move their family to Chris’ home; Canada, the tension of a new home and new cultures put strain on the loving couple and their relationship soon fell apart, but the love for his children was unchanged. During this tense period the mother of his children began disciplining the kids in an overly physical manner, causing one of the kids to make a complaint about the abuse. While Chris was taking care of his kids CAS removed his children from his loving home. The next five days the kids were kept in foster care, during this time Chris was not allowed to see his kids, strangely his wife, the one who the child had complained about was allowed to visit them.
When Chris was finally offered the unbelievable ultimatum of give his kids to a foster family or give his kids to his wife, he lamented and gave up the kids to his wife who he believed to be a good mother aside from the recent trouble. The court demanded that he produce the children’s citizenship and turn it over to the court. During this period Chris’s life was upside down his belongings were in boxes between multiple places and one of the three citizenship cards was lost in the shuffle. The court put him in jail for 15 days and charged him with contempt of court.
Driving People Insane
During the CAS hearing Chris had 16 witnesses that he was to bring before the court, by the 9th witness (Peter Ringrose, a CAS executive) the Honorable Justice Hardman stopped the trial with no explanation.
Chris Carter decided it was time to get loud, he started protesting in front of the local Children’s Aid and Police Headquarters. The response was mostly positive but there were people who desperately wanted him gone. Some-one wanted him gone so badly that when Kim Putman and Virginia Torrance (CAS lawyers) walked by him the police arrested him for 2 counts of assault, Chris didn’t come within 6m of the women.
Chris and other parents who have dealt with CAS can be quoted as saying ”It was like they were trying to drive me insane.” When he would go to the CAS building for scheduled visits with his kids he would sometimes be greeted by a grinning worker who would sarcastically say “Sorry Chris I forgot to call you, we had to cancel this week, maaaaybe next week!” It’s experiences like this that can drive people over the edge, imagine you wait all week to see your kids, your only joy in the world, and some grinning jerk tells you that you have to wait another week to see your kids for just one measly hour. Then there was the heat, the kids liked to be active, so in that little time they had with their father they would play floor hockey, judo, and other intense activities that warm a room up fast. One day Chris opened the door to the hall to let some air in, the CAS workers demanded he close the door, so he asked that next week they move him to the room at the end of the hall so they could leave the door open and nobody would walk by it. The next week they arrived to a room that was noticeably hot before they even started playing, so he opened the door and began to play with his kids, again the CAS workers demanded he close the door, enough was enough and this father wasn’t going to have it, Chris refused to close the door and soon enough a group of police officers showed up to drag him away in front of his crying children.
Change In Bail Conditions
These are events have made Chris become the devoted activist that he is, and his troubles with the justice system aren’t even close to coming to an end. The more he fights the more unbelievable the charges get.
Tuesday February 21st 2012 Chris was arrested in Chatham under charges of obstruction of justice, later changed to personation. The charges were filed because Chris gave a false name while accompanying an individual to a CAS meeting. Wednesday 22nd the crown offered to release him under the following conditions:
-$1500 bail
- No communication with CKCS employees direct or indirect except through legal counsel and such communication will be in writing, email, or during review court proceedings.
-Not to attend or be within 100m of CKCAS with the exception for court proceedings.
-To reside at his current address.
Chris refused the conditions and returned to court the next day, this time the crown offered a slightly different set of conditions, the only change being that he may not verbally be in contact at all which effectively removes him from any CAS review court proceedings. In disgust, and frustration Chris accepted these harsher terms.
To learn more about his struggle or if you are in need of advice visit FixCAS.com and CanadaCourtWatch.com
OMG absolutely amazing piece yet again!!! You are totally amazing and the truth will prevail, and he will NEVER back down!!!
Family law in Ont. is badly broken and very unfair. This is sad and sadder CAS and the Attorney General will not work to change it other than to have input from only lawyers. He is out. How does CAS ban an entire agency form talking to a person?
I am very concerned about what appears to be charges laid for political reasons rather than violations of the criminal code.
I also I understand there was discussion about a publication ban. A CCW member spoke with the crown today and could not get clarification about exactly what is under the ban. It was not made clear by what jurisdiction the court made this ban, exactly what is under ban and why anything was put under a ban.
Any issue of identifying children involved with CAS is covered by section 45(8) of the Child and Family Services Act and therefore could not be cause for this publication ban.
Has your media outlet been able to clarify this matter.
In my view a publication ban requested by the crown and objected to by the defendant is not constitutional. Freedom of the press and the public’s right to know are very necessary factors in a democratic society.
Any info you have on this would be greatly appreciated.
Awesome article! One of the conditions imposed is to keep Chris out of Review Board Hearings where he tends to ask important and tough questions of the cas workers. I think they have a policy something like this…”If no one asks us to tell the truth…we don’t have to. If no one points out the lies we can hide them. If Chris Carter comes to a review board meeting and questions us…WE’RE SCREWED!” pretty sure his name is now part of their policies and procedures.
Chris Carter has been so helpful to everyone and he gets thrown in jail for WHAT BEING HONEST AND STANDING UP FOR WHAT ICAS IS DOING WRONG..I’M FIGHTING FOR MY GRANDKIDS AND CAS AND FACS IS ALWAYS RUNNING US AROUND .MY GRANDKIDS MEAN THE WORLD ME AND THIER GRANDPA WON’T STOP FIGHTING THEY ARE FAMILY..
I will GLADLY attend anyone’s review hearing if they can arrange transportation for me and provide me with the necessary docs (or a short summary) that concerns the subject matters/ issues being dealt with at the hearing.
NOT A PROBLEM. DONE DEAL. JOHN RANGER rangerjj@hotmail.com
It is disgusting to see my tax dollars go towards litigation against good citizens. CAS drove him to act and then the courts support CAS tyranny with public money. Then a publication ban…serious what are they hiding with such fervency! That is what we need to find out!
There are many people following this story and we will keep ever vigilant to ensure no more peaceful citizens of Ontario are apprehended and funneled through our tax payer funded court system for no other reason that to stop someone from doing the right thing.
May justice prevail!
THEY MAY BE HIDING ONGOING (seemingly) BORDERLINE CRIMINAL ACTS PERPETRATED FOR PROFIT (CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS) WHICH HAVE EVERYTHING TO DO WITH ILLEGALLY INVOLVING FAMILIES INTO THE YOUTH PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR PROFIT $$$$$ - BUT NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY CHILD IN DANGER ETC…..
This absolutely breaks my heart..Loving parents are kept everyday from contacting their own children!! CAS IS STEALING ONTARIO CHILDREN AND SELLING THEM FOR PROFIT!! IT’S TIME CAS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR TEARING MILLIONS OF FAMILIES APART EACH YEAR!!
Ditto on Wendy Hart…but more than the combined parts of all of this; the Province of Ontario has purposely legislated an UNACCOUNTABLE agency with sweeping powers as entrenched in the Constitution. I have been professing, for some time…in addition to the need for Accountability & Transparency of CAS (Ombudsman oversight) there is a propensity for a constitutional challenge of Ontario’s Child Protection legislation. As all Ontario systems have been created independently & separate from Gov’t (Provincial or Federal); not unlimited to the courts…the legislation has devised that the Court be the OBJECTIVE arbitrator for the people’s displeasure with harm imposed on them by legislative processes used to “govern” their province of residence. In order to “challenge” a legislative statute, or the Constitutional applications of legislation, then the public’s only medium of “redress” is via litigation (by using the Courts). I have recently been a strong voice of impartations to others about “why” Ontario’s Child Protection Act should be declared as being “ultra vires” (above it’s jurisdiction). Ontario legislators with the premier at the head has willfuly allowed “status quo” in the maintainance of CAS duties having been delegated to a wholly unaccountable entity in the form of a “PRIVATE” corporation. The LEGISLATORS take NO ACTION or treatise to REIGN it in…they continue to modify legislation increasing CAS powers; placing CAS as an agency with protocols & mechanisms to utilize every resource & authority within Ontario to facilitate their tactics & techniques with child apprehension & suppressing those who are in opposition to their procedures & operations…We are left with the Court as our only RESOLVE; law enforcement should be the medium of maintain balance of “peace” & functionality within communities but it’s increasingly become the lap dog of the CAS to silence public education on the issues…it’s a viscious, cyclical loop of self-perpretuating insanity & the people in positions of authority who have leverage to enable restoration of some peaceable balance idly sit by & let bureaucracy dictate their actions as defined within the perverse sociological context of what ONTARIO’s PREMIER declares should or should not be…We are LONG OVERDUE for a new premier, but Ontarians keep voting him back in. We are LONG OVERDUE for ACCOUNTABILITY OF CAS’s but things remain UNCHANGED…there is legal victimization of CHILDREN…I could expound on my own unique dynamic as recorded in law…I spent 8.5, nearly 9 years in litigation against the Crown disputing WRONGFUL Crown Wardship (as identified by successive Judge’s) but because of infinite legal technicalities, the balance of powers; CAS manipulations & immunity so that the Court would not hold them culpable when they committed statutory rights violations against my sons, psychological programming to perpetrate parental alienation & contempt of court by blocking the COURT ORDERED children’s lawyer from having access to my sons for the purpose of interviews for the court…my children were never recoverable..I only got minor access after several years to the oldest child…I was unsuccessful in acquiring ANY contact with my sons…I have not seen my sons in over 10 years; I have FOREVER been legally deprived of the ability to parent…& the CURSE is not over, as Family Law Education for WOMEN (FLEW) pamphlets, produced by the PROVINCE for distribution in courthouses, legal clinics etc. outlines that a child can be APPREHENDED AT BIRTH from a YOUNG MOTHER or any PARENT who’s ever been in the care of a CAS (former Crown Ward). I’ve spent 11 years & counting, in this emotional nightmare…I have years more to go until my 2 remaining children are each respectively 18 years old…then the shadow (shroud) of “domestic terrorism” continues to haunt, for no one knows the day or hour; any cause could generate a report/result in apprehension of my grandchildren because their parent (my children) spent the bulk of their childhoods as Crown Wards based on a legislative child protection system which does not require PROOF of harm or neglect for apprehension…merely a suspicion or allegation; a system that does not require a “WARRANT” for apprehension as outlined in the CFSA…under warrented or warrantless apprehensions. Nowhere in the Constitution an anyone be arrested, detained, imprisoned…held by the law without being informed of the charge…it should extend to include provisions for “civil liberties” so that no one can apprehended without a warrant…but in the context of child protection; child protection can TRUMP all applications of the constitutional act because CAS workers are acting as DELEGATED agents for the Crown. This is UNACCEPTABLE & shows the tyranny rampant in our ALLEGED “free” & “democratic” nation. It is only so much as we are led to believe we are living in a democracy, when the STARK reality is quite the CONTRASTING opposite.
So saddened this is happening to the ‘people’s warrior’.
Anyone who has seen Chris around children would see a man that is a gentle giant. He interacts with the young and usually has something of a ‘learning thing’ to offer them.
I would hope that his photo is plastered all over the news for everyone to SEE what our failing CAS Society does to anyone who ‘challenges’ them
You are in everyone’s hearts Chris…Keep hanging on.
WE MUST ALL STAND UPO NOW AND FIGHT HARDER THAN EVER.
WE ARE CHRIS’S SHADOW…. SUNNY DAY OR CLOUDY DAY…. AND WE WILL BE EVEN LOUDER AND PENETRATING THAN CHRIS WAS - TO TEACH THEM TO LEAVE US THE FEEZUK ALONE!
I have a lot of respect for this man and I can’t believe for a second how screwed up our system is. They say things have gotten better over the years innocent people get heard. Not from where I stand it seems like the good parent gets a shaft have their name torn apart their family ripped apart and yet who is left standing? Not the innocent that’s for sure. Tax dollars get wasted every day because so big shot lawyer wants to make a name for him/herself and not caring what the truth is of the matter. Well here’s the naked truth right in front of our eyes and yet people still want to turn the other cheek. I used to be one of those people because I was afraid. I’m not afraid anymore because I see I’m not the only one and I wish people would lose the attitude “only bad parents lose their children”. No people everyone can lose their kids, its called how bad does the CAS want them.
Look at Chris Carter loving his children is his only crime and his only will for living and yep the CAS took that away too. My heart breaks for this man yet I know he isn’t willing to take anything lying down and neither did I. So my love and support goes with him and as long as there is a CCW and a Chris Carter you know there is going to be a fight. KEEP UP FIGHTING Chris your family is behind you.
I’VE RECENTLY SPOKEN WITH THE OFFICE OF SENATOR CELINE HERVIEUX PAYETTE and SENATOR ANNE C COOLS…. WHO ARE BOTH VERY INVOLVED AND CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE YOUTH PROTECTION IN QUEBEC AND ONTARIO.
THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS ARE BECOMING PARANOID AND SCARED BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS GETTING OUT NOW…. (especially since the Shafia girls case was exposed) on the Fifth Estate…. (these girls were killed after youth protection closed their file 3 times - throwing them to the wolves….)
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2011-2012/thehouseofshafia/
READ THIS ARTICLE AS IT DESCRIBES HOW THE DIRECTOR OF YOUTH PROTECTION IN QUEBEC - COMPLETELY DESERTED 3 SISTERS - THIS AFTER THEIR SCHOOLS CONTACTED BATSHAW YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTERS - TO REPORT ABUSE ETC….