We are trying to adopt two more right now. We are experiencing some of the frustration that I heard from our witnesses this morning. We have two little boys in British Columbia who are siblings to the four adopted children we have. We have had resistance from, we believe, one government provincial worker, who has stopped the adoption. So the children remain in foster care, and the two little boys keep being moved from home to home. They have been returned to the reserve, extricated from the reserve, and put back into foster care. All the while, our four children ask, “Mum and Dad, when are our little brothers going to come home?” There are times of wonderful joy and wonderful experiences, but there's also an ongoing frustration. We just want to be parents. We just want to love children. We want to take care of them. We want to do what comes naturally in a family situation. Sometimes dealing with the bureaucracy can be emotionally draining and exasperating.
On December 7th, 2010. See this statement in context.