Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank both witnesses off the top. You've both provided such informed and thoughtful testimony about such a sensitive and painful topic for so many of the people who are watching at home or are of Ukrainian descent in Canada.
One of the lenses through which I'm looking at this is from my position on the human rights subcommittee of this committee, which I think both of you have appeared at before on other occasions. When I was preparing for this meeting this morning, I reviewed the three press releases that I could find that were issued by the human rights subcommittee.
Ms. Howarth, a December 1, 2023, press release from the human rights subcommittee specifically calls for the creation of the centralized registry that we were speaking about earlier and that you referenced in your comments. As of that date, 386 children had been rescued, according to the briefing we had.
Almost two years later, in 2025, it appears that an additional 1,200 or so children have been rescued, but the registry doesn't exist yet. Could you elaborate on the barriers to the creation of that registry?