The lack of support from provincial governments for switched-at-birth victims has prompted the families to hire lawyers and share their stories publicly in the media
, after a genealogical DNA test brought parents and daughter together.
The case is complicated by the fact that Mr. Beauvais was raised in an Indigenous family and forcibly taken into foster care during the Sixties Scoop, while Mr. Ambrose was raised in a white family of European descent. “Governments can no longer just ignore the pain and suffering of these people,” said Mr. Robinson, who acted as a spokesman for Mr. Monias and three other men switched at birth in Norway House. “What is going to happen to these guys? These guys are now [nearly] 68 years old and they’re going to go the rest of their life having been served probably one of the greatest injustices,” he said. “I find that totally unacceptable.
A spokesperson for Health Canada said it sympathizes with the people affected by these incidents, but provinces and territories have primary jurisdiction over the administration and delivery of health care. “This includes the provision of hospital care in their jurisdictions,” Joshua Coke wrote in a statement. “For further comment or more information on hospital management, the provincial or territorial health care ministries would be best suited to respond.
The federal government launched an investigation, which in Mr. Monias’s case helped answer lingering questions, including the fact that, at the time of his birth, the power was out at the hospital, which may have contributed to the mistake. Mr. Gange said the federal government also negotiated an undisclosed settlement for the men and their family members.
After the revelation, two more men discovered through DNA testing that they too had been switched at birth at the federally run hospital in Norway House in 1975.
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