Canadian Government Sets up Probe of Switched at Birth Case

They were born on June 19, 1975 at the Norway House hospital.

It’s the second such alleged mix-up at the same federally run hospital during the mid-1970s.

Whilst a tearful and shell-shocked Mr Swanson added “I don’t know what to say”. “Fourty years gone – I’m angry”. “It’s pretty tough, it hits you like a ton of bricks”, he told local press in Winnipeg. “It’s going to affect us one way or the other, I know that”. Further tests are expected to show that Swanson is the biological son of Frances Tait, his friend’s father. “I don’t know what to say”, Swanson said as he wept.

“The boy he raised is known as Junior”, Robinson said.

Last November, Luke Monias and Norman Barkman from Garden Hill First Nation came forward after DNA results confirmed they were not the biological children of their parents.

Former Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson, who works closely with the families of the two men, said he was outraged and upset on Thursday. “It was a criminal act”.

According to a statement by Canada’s Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott, a third-party investigation will be undertaken to try to get to the bottom of what happened.

Their families are coping as best they can, Robinson said, but they are in turmoil because their lives have been torn apart and they need to receive counselling.

He said: “It’s something (the government) can’t sweep under the carpet”.

Robinson said there was always suspicion among residents in Norway House about the latest case.

‘These two gentlemen are not the only victims. “We agreed we are going to be one family”. We have siblings. that are hurt by this’. According to the Canadian official, an independent team will soon be hired to review all birth records at the hospital in an attempt to investigate any other possible mistakes made in the maternity ward.

Charlotte Mason, Tait’s mother who accidentally brought up Swanson, said she was shifted to a hospital in Winnipeg after her delivery due to complications.

Frances Tait said her baby was taken away immediately after she gave birth and she didn’t see him – or the baby she thought was hers – until hospital staff handed an infant to her when she was discharged.