Finance committee  Yes, thank you. The costs really depend on what province you live in. In Ontario, for example, if you were to get a private home study done, it might cost you $1,500 or $2,000, and the same for taking the mandatory pre-service training, which in Ontario is called P.R.I.D.E train

Finance committee  It would be primarily the 2,000 or 3,000 who are adopting privately and through the domestic system right now. So 2,000 or 3,000 in a year could be affected by this. The people who are adopting internationally are probably already able to claim the maximum expenses, because the

Finance committee  It matters to those families, as I said, who may be trying to get themselves adoption-ready before they even contact a Children's Aid Society or ministry in the different provinces and territories. They're spending the money upfront and they're trying to get themselves ready, bef

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, Mr. Chair and committee members. Thank you for inviting me to address you today. My name, as you've heard, is Laura Eggertson. I'm the volunteer president of the Adoption Council of Canada. I'm also here as an adoptee and an adoptive parent.