They do play a very important role; they're the first part of the process, when it comes to adoptions. We've been working with provinces and territories very closely throughout the Operation Stork process in order to make sure that all the paperwork...as my colleague said, all the adoptions that were expedited were those in which a match had been made in advance of the earthquake and for which we could have secure understanding of the situation of the child and the adoptive parents. International best practice is typically that one tries to find a solution for a child, if there's a solution available, in their country of origin. But cases in which adoptions were already in process, matches had been made, and everything was in a state of readiness were the cases we moved on first.
On March 18th, 2010. See this statement in context.