Human Resources committee  Sure. Yes, I can certainly leave a copy because that's a copy we got from the website of one of the provinces. It's a protocol called—I will read the title here—the “Provincial/Territorial Protocol on Children and Families Moving Between Provinces and Territories”. That was conci

Human Resources committee  Adoption is clearly a provincial jurisdiction. The issue is how the provinces are working together to address that issue. I understand that they have had some discussion. In fact, they even have a provincial-territorial protocol for children and families moving between provinces

Human Resources committee  I think the solution resides with the provinces. In the protocol the provinces have agreed on, there's a section called “Adoption and Post-Adoption Services”. I think part of this protocol was meant to facilitate the work between the provinces.

Human Resources committee  If you don't mind, I will ask my colleague, Mr. Beauséjour, to answer all the questions dealing with EI.

Human Resources committee  The agencies are licensed by the provinces, so they are regulated by the provinces. If your specific question is how these agencies are being monitored, it's at the provincial level.

Human Resources committee  We can search. We don't have that information with us.

Human Resources committee  Right. I cannot talk about the international system overall, because I don't have it with me. But I can say that if we look at where most of the children adopted in Canada are coming from, the number one source is China, and the second one is the U.S.A. I would say that depending

Human Resources committee  If we look at the top 10 sources, what I have here, and I think that is probably information that CIC is tracking as well, is China, the U.S., Ethiopia, Vietnam, Haiti, Russia--I don't know if Haiti is on a regular basis or if it's specific cases recently--the Philippines. We can

Human Resources committee  At the international level we are tracking the situation in different countries, and we are also trying to see what the availabilities are, because some of the countries that have good systems in place--when I say “good systems”, I mean a system that respects the fundamental prin

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure how I can answer this question, in the sense that what you're raising is the overall situation of children in Canada on one side and on the other side our role supporting the provinces or facilitating the decisions they have to make when they are allowing adoption fr

Human Resources committee  I would probably go back to one of the comments we were making at the beginning: that adoption is really a provincial responsibility. Even the preparation or the assessment of the family that is willing to adopt is being done at the provincial level. In fact, provincial authoriti

Human Resources committee  In terms of international treaties, as I was saying, our biggest challenge—and it's the same for the international community—is to secure the necessary information to make the right decisions. Our role is to provide that information to the provinces and help the provinces make th

Human Resources committee  Yes, in this case, it is a group of countries working together.

Human Resources committee  I was primarily referring to the fact that we must ensure that the parents are as well informed as possible, that they have all possible information when they make their decision, and that they have a better understanding of the complexity of this long and difficult process. We k

Human Resources committee  Yes, to a large extent. In terms of the other aspect of this, a number of support programs are already in place.