The following excerpt is from an article posted in the January 3, 2014 edition of winnipeg.ctvnews.ca:
A Winnipeg woman wants to find her birth mother, but says Manitoba’s closed access to adoption records continue to stop her.
Penny Treflin turns 69 years old this year. She has known since she was 14-years-old she was adopted. She said she has wanted to find her birth parents ever since, but it has been an uphill battle against an archaic system.
“If the large provinces have opened their records, i do not understand what the problem is with Manitoba,” said Treflin.
She said anyone born before 1999 cannot access their records….
