Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would agree with what she has just said. It would appear to me to be easy to make the exception for adopted children. I guess that may not handle the situation of expat Canadians, however. But as military and government personnel are exempt, why shouldn't adopted children be ex

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'm sorry. I couldn't understand you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  There was no consultation, as far as I know, with any of the adoption community about this.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Obviously, you've set this apart as a separate issue, but I think to talk about adopted children having a number of years of residency after the age of 14 doesn't make sense. Adopted children need to be--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Not unless they apply by the permanent resident route and ask for Canadian citizenship once the child arrives here. There's no other alternative.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am the director of TDH pour les enfants Quebec and TDH Ontario. I'm a clinical psychologist, and I've worked in adoption since 1974. I've personally supervised about 2,000 adoptions in that time. My husband and I have five children, four of whom are adopted, two of them interna