Darius MacDougall. His name represents not just one family’s pain, but the failure of a system meant to protect all children. On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we remember the children who never came home from residential schools, and we face the truth that Canada is still failing children today.

Last year, I stood at the Kamloops Residential School, where unmarked graves told the story of lives lost because silence and inaction were allowed to prevail. And now, families like those of Darius, Lily and Jack Sullivan, and Nick Ehlers are living through the same silence — not of history, but of a broken emergency alert system. Unless all four strict criteria are met, including an eyewitness abduction, no Amber Alert can be issued, even when the risks are obvious and time is slipping away.

This is why we are fighting for Darius’s Law. It would give police the discretion to act when children are in urgent, high-risk situations, instead of being bound by the most rigid Amber Alert system in North America. Every child deserves that protection.

On this day of reflection, remembrance is not enough. Action is required. Please share this petition loudly and widely — with family, friends, coworkers, and communities. Let us honour truth and reconciliation not only with words, but by ensuring no family is ever left wondering what if.

If every child matters, then every family deserves a system that never fails them.