Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the area of testing or requiring testing is one where the courts will play a significant role and do from time to time, depending on the issue or the parent being involved. A court or judge can order that testing be required in a number of instances.
When it comes to the child protection side of the equation, when we get involved we are very involved in what occurs in the home when a child has been apprehended, removed from, a number of procedures are taking place. Social workers are put on the file and from counselling that has to be required by parents to showing that in fact they can provide the necessary level of care to the children. Having a good home environment is something that is checked on regularly. For example, it's not a matter of a child being apprehended and then being almost immediately returned home. The fact is, if it's an occurrence that has come up before and a child goes through the process, number one, they'd be put in, if it's a day care or, not a day care but a professional home or foster family, in that sense, for the immediate help and if things don't turn around, then we get further involved as going to the courts for an order of bringing the children into our care in a very formal way. Then we work with the parents on a plan of what needs to be done in that home, in that environment, and they have to be in agreement with that at the front end. If we have no cooperation in that area, then we get involved fully with the courts and that becomes very formal, and then the process is a long one to ensure again the safety of the child before the child is reintroduced back. That goes through supervised visits,
whether it's an hour or two every other day, and then graduating to a weekend, and then back into home environment, and that doesn't stop there where we become involved in the sense to make sure that environment stays safe. So we do quite a bit right now to ensure that if we're reintroducing a child back into the family situation, that it's well monitored, that parents have to show that they're in a position to take over care and responsibility of their child again in a satisfactory manner. So we are very involved in how we do this.
Should we require testing be done, should it be zero tolerance in the sense that a parent who's got their problems under control have sought the necessary counselling but have a sip of wine, should they be disallowed from having their children back? There's a lot of things that come in there and I think what we've been doing, to date, where there's an obvious issue, we have worked through the social workers and the families on coming up with an appropriate level of programming before a child can be reintroduced into that environment. Thank you.