I'd like to go back to the border babies issue. Listening to my colleagues on the other side of the table, I wondered whether things were done in the same way across Canada. I come from Quebec and I'm a priest. I've registered a lot of babies during my career. It was the churches that registered births at the time of baptism.
I wonder how we can blame parents today for not registering their children, for example those born in the United States, in view of the fact that, until 1994, it was the churches, not they, who were responsible for registration. People weren't even aware they had to register their children. Mistakes may have been made by the churches. You have to go and check where people had their babies baptized or registered.