While attending a recent conference in Sherbrooke, Quebec, I had the opportunity to offer a very brief history of children’s rights law in Quebec since the May 2021 final report of the province’s Special Commission on the Rights of the Child and Youth Protection ("Laurent Commission"). The Laurent Commission made 63 ‘recommendACTIONS’ that talk about children’s rights, Indigenous children, prevention services from pregnancy to adulthood, youth protection, judicial proceedings, a family for life, rehabilitation centres, transition to adult life, social workers’ conditions of practice, leadership, and funding.
