Some grim figures were reported this week by Global News that, by rights, Canadian governments should be publishing as a matter of routine: On average, a child who is or has recently been under state care dies in Ontario roughly every three days. Using freedom-of-information requests, reporters found that 354 children with open or recently open child-services files had perished between 2020 and 2022. By my reckoning, that works out to roughly 13 per cent of all child deaths in the province over that time.