| Name | Party | Connection with adoption | Types of legislation supported for adult adoptee access to original birth certificate. Options given: i) unconditional, ii) with contact veto, iii) with disclosure veto) |
Types of legislation supported for birth parent access to adoptee's amended birth certificate. Options given: i) unconditional, ii) with contact veto, iii) with disclosure veto) |
Comments |
| Leona Dombrowsky | Liberal | Other: Executive Assistant is an adoptive mom | with contact vetoes | with contact vetoes | I have first hand knowledge of the benefits of openness in adoption, and will continue to support legislative change. |
| Ross Sutherland | NDP | Other:My partner and I are members of our local Children's Aid Society's Special Friends Program, and are foster grandparents to two children. As well, a member of our family is an adoption worker, so I am familiar with the ins and outs of the adoption process. | with contact vetoes | with contact vetoes | NDP MPP Marilyn Churley intoduced a bill (Bill 77) into the
Ontario Legislature, The Adoption Disclosure Statute Law Amendment Act, that
would give both adoptees and birth parents access to birth and adoption
information, and also allow for a contact veto by any of the parties
involved.
The NDP's public health care platform includes a commitment to save lives by improving access to records for adoptees and birth parents. Recent research on genetic diseases clearly shows that keeping adoptees in the dark about their medical history actually sentences many of them to premature deaths. Howard Hampton and the NDP would move quickly to pass Bill 77, a law developed and championed by Toronto-Danforth MPP Marilyn Churley, to improve access to records for adoptees and birth parents. |
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