Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks to all of you. Jessica, welcome to the world of adults.
One of the things I found useful this morning was the information that we don't collect data across the country on children awaiting adoption—who they are, where they are, their age, and all the other things. I think the collection of data is extremely important, and that was an interesting piece for me this morning. Ms. Scarth, I think you were clear on that.
The other thing that is the lack of an MOU between the provinces and our country. It never ceases to surprise me how we fight so hard for free trade, but we have no free trade in our own country. Our economic strength as a nation would be much stronger if we had freer interprovincial trade and collaboration. But we seem to ignore that and don't fight for it. It permeates other levels, and it goes to things like skills development. If you're a masseuse in Ontario and you go to B.C., you have to train all over again or get recertified. Even on the professional level, we don't have MOUs.
I'm not trying to...this is just as important. I'm just saying that we have a really strange federation. Our federation is much too decentralized for the good of the country sometimes, in that we don't work together. I agree with you that this is an area we should be looking at.
With respect to the EI for 50 weeks, I'm not speaking for my party here; I'm speaking only as a member of this committee. I agree that we ought to give the same attention to adopted children as we do to birth children, for all of the reasons you have said and others have stated many times before.
I agree with those things. My only question has to do with changes to the federal tax act. I forget who mentioned it. It might have been Ms. Eggertson. Was it you, Ms. Shuck?