Thank you.
Michael was taken from us on March 24, 1991. He has now just had his twenty-sixth birthday. The person or persons responsible for taking Michael from us and eluding every channel that we've attempted, because we chose to make our case very public.... We wanted it out there so that we would have more eyes helping us search for Michael. Unfortunately, that hasn't worked to this date. I do believe that he is out there somewhere and that one day he will see himself and find his way home.
On the changes to the Criminal Code that your committee is looking at, there is that chance that something.... I don't know how to put it. Not having that minimum there is.... It needs to be there, as far as I'm concerned and as the member who put forth the bill said, because there is that opening there that needs to be shut. We need to have that stronger message put out there that we shouldn't be taking other people's children. It's just....