WINNIPEG -- A woman is camping out on the front lawn of the Manitoba legislature and says she won't eat as part of a protest against the province's child-welfare system.
Kim Edwards says she will only drink coffee, soda and water until she gets to talk to Prime Minister Stephen Harper so she can press for a national royal commission on child welfare.
Edwards was a godmother to Phoenix Sinclair, a young girl who died after social workers returned her to her mother and whose death is now the subject of a provincial inquiry.
Edwards says the inquiry is not looking deep enough into what went wrong and is not allowing ordinary people to testify about flaws in child welfare.
Edwards cared for Phoenix for much of the girl's life before her mother, Samantha Kematch, regained custody.
Kematch and her boyfriend beat Phoenix to death in 2005 and the killing went undetected for nine months.
