Monday (1 June) was a day that many thousands of people in Ontario will remember for the rest of their lives. It was the first day people adopted in Ontario (since 1921) could apply to the government for their original birth records.
A
new law, similar to one already in place in other Canadian provinces,
one in the UK and a handful of U.S. states, allows adopted persons over
18 years old to apply for their original birth certificates--containing
their original names and the name or names of their original mother and
perhaps father.
Detractors worried that people desiring privacy
from contact by biological family members would be harassed if the law
was passed. But
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