Paula Simons: Draft child welfare recommendations miss the point

After a year of meetings, after hearing from senior bureaucrats and academic experts, from front-line workers and Indigenous community groups, the all-party ministerial panel on child intervention came up with 26 draft recommendations to improve Alberta’s troubled child-welfare system. 
The version I’ve seen features 26 nebulous exercises in self-important, politically fashionable rhetoric. They won’t save the life of one single child. 
“I think we squandered a