--and would apply. I don't think it affects anything in this regard. An issue that you may look at or perhaps want to be concerned with also would be that under proposed paragraph 5.1(c) in this proposal, it states:
(c) was in accordance with the laws of the place where the adoption took place and the laws of the country of residence of the adopting citizen;
We're going to have to find out what “the laws of the country” means, because we've heard today and we know that the provinces are responsible for adoption, not Canada. Unless the regulations state, perhaps, that the laws of the country mean each province, then we would have clarification. Again we don't know.
The question becomes, would that stand up in court, or would someone argue and say it has to be according to the laws of the country that the Canadian is in? Well, I'm in Canada and there are no Canadian adoption laws; they are within provincial jurisdiction. We will have to find out what that means. And with respect to Quebec, of course, that's a very serious issue.