I received a reply to my letter to Minister Howard in November 2012, from the Acting Assistant Deputy Minister repeating as follows:
the Department quote: is currently consulting with Manitoba’s Vital Statistics Agency, as part of our consideration of Manitoba’s open records model unquote. This is a quote from Minister Howard’s letter of March 22, 2012 and contains no new information.
My question to the Premier is:
quote: why has it taken 12 years to study the open adoption laws of other jurisdictions and still not be in a position to open Manitoba adoption records for the years since the government began recording adoptions to March 15, 1999? All jurisdictions in Canada who have opened their future adoption records, also opened their past adoption records, with the exception of Manitoba.
My final comment was quote: The general feeling among the thousands in the post-adoption community is that they are being lead down the proverbial garden path. unquote.
I sent a copy of my letter to Richard Cloutier at CJOB who is interested in this matter.
