Thank you, Madam Chair. I may be sharing with Mr. Savage.
What you're saying brings back an interesting comment for me. I visited Bangladesh recently. One of the questions that came to me repeatedly when I was there, from media and from a couple of ministers, was whether Canada was prepared to accept climate-change refugees--families, as well as children.
I suspect that at some point if there were a crisis of some kind, like the tsunami or the earthquake in Haiti, there might be children who would need to be helped through adoptions and what have you. That brings in the element of immigration and refugees, so the Canadian government probably has a role to play in creating some sort of section to deal with climate change refugees or disaster situations for children and adults. Have you thought about that aspect of it and how the refugee angle would work?
You said it would require special EI benefits for these parents. Are you referring to something different from what exists now in EI for birth parents and adoptive parents, something that would require changes?
There are always major concerns by the countries from which these children come. When I was the Minister for International Cooperation and visited developing countries in Africa and other places, the major concern was that the developed countries were always keen to take children, but those countries didn't want lose their children. They didn't want them to be sent away en masse to other countries. They wanted to raise them. They wanted help to keep their children.
So that's another way of looking at it. There is a bit of an ethical issue that we really need to look at that is very real. I think we need to address that as well as the other.