Friday, June 18, 2010
Another disappointing year
The legislature has now adjourned for the summer, and there has been no announcement about opening the adoption law to make the adoption files from 1925 to March 15, 1999 open to those who deserve to have the information. It was one year ago that the government announced it was going to review the Act. I really don't know what there is to review. Other provinces and territories i.e. British Columbia, Alberta, Nova Scotia Newfoundland/Labrador, Yukon and now Ontario all have opened their adoption acts and made all adoption files open, both past and future. What is taking Manitoba so long to do what is right? In the meantime total strangers still have access to your personal information, and the law prevents you, the person whose life it affects, from getting that information. This makes absolutely no sense. It is very difficult to understand, in this society where the 'invasion of privacy' supposedly is held to be a crime, how the government's action can be justified.
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Hello Royden,
I have contacted you in the past for some advice. The advice you gave was great but my mother(adoptee) and I still have gotten nowhere. I keep checking your blog from time to time, in hopes of finally getting some good news about Manitoba opening up the adoption records. My mother was born in Manitoba into the United States. I'm getting rather impatient with the new law to be passed. If the new law were to ever get passed, would you please contact me? email: shan_ski2001@yahoo.com. Thank you so much and I hope to hear from you soon with some good news:)
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