Ontario
The Ontario government is ignoring Bill 77 because they believe there are not enough people in Ontario who care about open adoption records.
Let's show them WE DO CARE. Adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents must demand that the government brings Bill 77 to third reading this fall.
On October 8 2002, Marilyn Churley will present Ernie Eves with our petitions and challenge the Legislature about Bill 77.
Please ask your friends and family members for their support. Get the COAR petition at http://www.oocities.org/coarontario/petition.html.
Send completed petitions to the address on the petition or bring them to the demonstration on October 8.
Dr. Wyatt said that at least once a month patients who are adoptees come to his office seeking genetic counselling. Sadly he usually can't help them as well as he might because they don't have their family medical history. The reception was also attended by Dr. David Chittayat, a geneticist at Mt. Sinai Hospital who supports Bill 77. He said, "It's so obvious why this bill should be supported."
These leading geneticists know that adopted people without access to their medical histories are at risk of inheriting up to 3000 diseases - diseases such as cancer, heart disease and many more! Sealed records can and do kill people.
Many MPPs - Conservatives, Liberals and NDP lined up to express their support of Bill 77! The adoption community came out as well and packed the large room.
Everyone made it clear that Bill 77 must come to third reading!
COAR announces its intention to step up the campaign for Bill 77 and asks people to actively support Bill 77 in order to get it to third reading. Stay tuned to this web site for more details.
See the Ontario Legislature's page on Bill 77 for the details on Bill 77's status.
Presentations made to the Standing Committee on General Government on Nov. 5 & 7, 2001 are linked below:
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