This Shadow Report is our response to the Canadian Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights Report, Children: The Silenced Citizens, released in April 2007. It was an authorized study conducted to examine whether Canada has diligently worked to implement its international and national obligations to children as promised when Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the Chair’s Forward, it was noted that an Interim Report in 2004 indicated the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child had not been incorporated into Canadian law; as well implementation gaps existed.