Before ending her life at 18, Maggie Kimattuuti Padlayat was moved 78 times by Quebec’s youth protection services.
The constant moving — living with 18 different foster families by the age of seven — contributed to the young Inuk’s already aggravated emotional state, and at the same time, it revealed major institutional flaws, according to a coroner’s report into Paklayat’s death published this week.
Coroner Pascale Boulay suggests several changes the government and its director of youth protection (DPJ) could make to better protect those living in the northern Quebec region, Quebec’s Inuit territory of Nunavik.
Among her recommendations, Boulay calls on the province’s order of
