Human Resources committee  Yes. I said national, Jeff. The reason is that if you look at some of the provinces--Alberta and New Brunswick have come up--Quebec has actually done a really excellent job on EI and family-friendly infertility policies. I think, given that it's a provincial responsibility prima

Human Resources committee  Sure.

Human Resources committee  I listened carefully to your discussion with officials in the first hour. The thing that was missing there, to me, was the notion of what you do two or three years after the adoption should one of the parents need to leave work to take care of the adopted child. And that happens

Human Resources committee  That's right.

Human Resources committee  I have two or three comments. First, the source is “Youth Leaving Care: How Do They Fare?”, September 2005. It's available at www.childhelp.org. You can go through some of my figures. I'll provide that to the committee clerk. Second, as the Johnston panel did its work, we dug i

Human Resources committee  At the moment, there are seven workers. Two of them are in Windsor. A couple are in Toronto. There is B.C., Nova Scotia, and Alberta. The Dave Thomas Foundation across the U.S. has shown great success, and these are hard-to-place kids, generally speaking. Wendy's Wonderful Kids

Human Resources committee  I think that organizations like CWLC and the Adoption Council of Canada could be strengthened, and that this would have a tremendous impact. My own view on the data piece is that we need to decide that a third party is going to collect these data. We are not talking about a big d

Human Resources committee  I will talk about the situation in Ontario. I'm not going to burden you with my terrible French accent. We looked at a couple of barriers. One was geography, which I spoke of, and the other was the access orders question. In practice, children who have access orders to their

Human Resources committee  Not that I'm aware of. I'm not aware of any that have moved. Peter, you may know more about it.

Human Resources committee  I'm an adoptive parent in the U.S. as well as in Canada, because I lived outside of Philadelphia, where we adopted my eldest son when he was three. He's an African-American. I learned a few things there about the U.S. model. First, they were very straightforward about when they

Human Resources committee  I just add that it's at a provincial level and almost non-existent at the national level. At the provincial level, we don't even know in Ontario across the 53 different childrens aid societies. We have the bizarre situation inside of Ontario where we have some geographies where k

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. My name is Will Falk. I'm a business person and the adoptive father of two boys from foster care. I'd like to start by congratulating the committee for showing leadership on this important issue. Adoption of crown wards is the ignored underbelly of soc