Thank you for being here. We appreciate your time.
We will ask our witnesses from the Adoption Council of Canada and the Children's Aid Society of Ottawa to come forward at this time. We have a few questions for them as well.
I'd like to thank our witnesses, Laura Eggertson and Barbara MacKinnon, for being here on such short notice.
Just so committee members are aware, there is an exhibit this week in Ottawa called the “Heart Gallery of Ottawa”. The Adoption Council of Canada is here. We felt that if we had a bit of time we'd make some time to hear from these folks on adoption and on the exhibit they've brought forward.
Thank you so much for being here.
Some information for the members has been distributed, and hopefully that will put this into some context, but what I'd like to do is just give the witnesses an opportunity to briefly share what they're doing. Then we'll have a brief opportunity for just one round of questioning.
We'd like to have the chance to hear what you're doing in Ottawa.