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<\/p>\nThe government tabled its response on Wednesday, saying it recognizes the \u201csignificant and lasting impact\u201d of forced adoptions as well as the work of a Senate committee that produced a report on the issue in 2018.<\/p>\n
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The response by Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu says adoption is the responsibility of the provinces, adding each province and territory has put in place protections to eliminate forced adoptions since the time period reviewed in the report.<\/p>\n
The minister says Canada is also part of several international conventions meant to protect women and children, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says a child shall not be separated from their parents against their will unless authorities determine separation is necessary for the child\u2019s best interests. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe government of Canada remains committed to upholding the principles enshrined in these conventions through our ongoing efforts to support women and children in Canada,\u201d the response said.<\/p>\n
A formal apology was among the recommendations issued in the Senate social affairs committee report, titled \u201cThe Shame Is Ours.\u201d Others included providing support services to those affected as well as access to records and files related to the forced adoptions.<\/p>\n
In presenting the petition to the House in May, Liberal MP Karina Gould said an estimated 300,000 unwed mothers were coerced and forced to give up their children for adoption between 1940s and 1970s.<\/p>\n
Several other countries including Australia, Ireland and Scotland have made formal apologies for the practice. The latest apology came from the United Kingdom earlier this month. <\/p>\n
The country\u2019s then-prime minister, Keir Starmer, said at the time that his government was \u201cdeeply and profoundly sorry\u201d for what he called a \u201cstain\u201d on the country\u2019s history. <\/p>\n
Canadians for a National Apology said Ottawa\u2019s response to the petition is putting Canada \u201cfurther behind every country that has confronted this history.\u201d The coalition said it would gather in September for a national day of action on the issue, calling for accountability.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis moment is not the end \u2014 it is the beginning,\u201d it said. <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 24, 2026. <\/p>\n
With files from AP <\/p>\n
Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The government tabled its response on Wednesday, saying it recognizes the \u201csignificant and lasting impact\u201d of forced adoptions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-823839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}