Thank you very much to all the witnesses who have come here today. I really appreciate the opportunity of hearing many of your comments.
I was wondering if you could talk a bit about customary adoption. I know that the Inuit practise customary adoption still today. Many first nations in the rest of the country do it a little less so in the southern parts. I am one who has also done customary adoption of youth and members in my own family, which means adopting a young child through a ceremony to a new relationship. It's sometimes very difficult to interact with the Canadian state in order to regularize that.
I was just wondering if you could talk a bit about some of your experiences and about whether that should be mentioned at all within this legislation, because I don't think it's currently mentioned in very much legislation anywhere in Canada.