Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Erskine-Smith, for this amendment.
Personally, I think it is important that we make sure that adopted kids are treated, as you put it, the same as your kids. I think, on this side, we would have the same perspective.
After years of working on this committee and watching changes go through the Citizenship Act, it's always about what the flaws are, where the holes are and whether we created new problems. There is a lot of human trafficking going on right now. A person can travel to the continent of Africa, can potentially find somebody and may not even know that this little child has been trafficked. That's obviously something we don't want to be encouraging and supporting. Should we be concerned about that? Is there anything in here that would help to prevent that from happening, and how might we be able to deal with that?
I believe we should be, as you say, changing things to make adoption more equal to birth. In that case, I agree, but I'm concerned about the potential downside of this. Most importantly, I'm concerned about the ways that unscrupulous people who are always out to make a buck will find a way to abuse the system. We've seen that in so many cases here with the way the Liberal government has set up the immigration system, whether it be students, temporary foreign workers or others. There are always people who are going to be able to exploit the system you set up, so how are you going to protect against that?