Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to both witnesses, particularly Ms. McLeod. Both testimonies are going to be helpful to us, but in hers, Ms. McLeod raised exactly the question posed by the bill: equity between birth parents and adoptive parents.
In my previous life, before I got into politics, I was a trade unionist. At the time, the members we represented were already saying that labour laws had to be changed to achieve equity. So people have been thinking about this for a long time.
Why do you think there were separate regimes? It's understandable that there were two separate regimes at the time. How long have you been advocating for equity?