Mr. Speaker, I have a return to written question asked by Mr. Bill Braden on July 5, 2000 regarding any further information or reports concerning the reasons Douglas Anderson was taken from family and into the care of the Government.

The department has, over the course of two years, conducted several searches for information pertaining to Mr. Anderson and has forwarded a considerable number of records to the applicant. The department also arranged for records held by the Government of Nunavut and relevant to Mr. Anderson's request to be sent to Yellowknife. These records were subsequently released to Mr. Anderson.

The Department of Health and Social Services has not, after extensive searches, identified any further records relevant to the applicant's request. In your question, you refer to a Document 59 that was cited in a letter from the department to Mr. Anderson. This document was noted in the letter as being not received by the department. Unfortunately, department staff made a clerical error; the department clearly received the document and it was released to Mr. Anderson. Document 59 should have been noted as being illegible.