Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for being here. We have all grown up a little this morning as a result of our contact with you. After hearing your testimony, we realize that the course of your lives will be marked by what you have lived through up to now. You can perhaps shed light on something else for us. What we are trying to do here is to find ways to make adoption easier, to provide better conditions, and so on.
But the fact remains that, as we speak, several thousand children are in foster care waiting to be adopted. Our understanding is that a foster family must be a necessary, but very short step before children are adopted, assuming they want to be.
Foster families are like an institution; they will always be there. Knowing that, what steps could we take to ensure that others do not have to live through the bad experiences you had in foster care?