Human Resources committee  We have no private adoption agencies. It's entirely public.

Human Resources committee  We had one--Christian Counselling Services. It was more a question of money than anything. Most people who went to them were looking for infant adoption, and my understanding is that they were not able to keep up their services for lack of funding.

Human Resources committee  When it comes to private adoption, yes, it is. Our biggest adoption problems and disruptions occur through private adoption due to a lack of information and appropriate counselling and timely planning. So definitely, yes, I would change the strategy and the formula and how they o

Human Resources committee  Exactly. You do have an additional information piece through the EI benefits. If you look at some of the things the parents are talking about there, we want to minimize adoption disruptions. When children who have had extremely severe experiences come into families, those famili

Human Resources committee  Yes. In fact, through our organization and even at the ministry level, when we're giving information to parents, we actually more often.... Besides the Citizenship and Immigration piece, which they need to understand from our country's side, the U.S.-based website is very compreh

Human Resources committee  Yes, we are. We are a registered non-profit charity, but we are funded through the Ministry of Social Services.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  I don't have, before me today, specific statistical numbers, but I can tell you what I know. The number of kids in care is increasing. The number of foster homes for those kids is decreasing, in spite of some tremendous efforts on behalf of our Saskatchewan Foster Families Associ

Human Resources committee  The number of adoptions is increasing. That has happened over the last two years. In the brief that I gave you there is a reference to the “Breach of Trust” report, which was submitted by the Saskatchewan children's advocate. Since that report, there has been an intensive Saska

Human Resources committee  Yes, it is.

Human Resources committee  The average cost of adoption? I do not know. Sorry.

Human Resources committee  To adoption, yes.

Human Resources committee  To answer your first question, we want to expedite things for families who have adopted children internationally, in terms of them gaining Canadian citizenship. However, in addition to that, children who have been adopted from abroad cannot pass that Canadian citizenship on to ch

Human Resources committee  Right.

Human Resources committee  I can hear you, yes.