Stats Canada has no statistics on orphaned (abandoned)children in Canada. I've obtained data from the several Canadian
adoption organizations and agencies. There are 88,000 children in foster care in Canada (I believe the number is
significantly higher because there are 30,423 children in
foster care in Ontario alone and the numbers are similar in Alberta); of these, 49 per cent are "Crown Wards"- looked
after by the Government.

Several Canadian families have applied for orphanage status
(and were denied) “because they foster more than 100 kids and often juggle 5 or more at a time”.

It is far too easy to remove children from their homes.
25,000 are in foster care because their mothers are in jail - often on minor charges while legal processes delay.
Abandonment issues are not recognized.

Thousands of children in foster care are waiting for adults
to "roll the dice" on their future.

The cost of one child in foster care for one year is $40,000.

“Forty three per cent of these children experience violence in the foster care setting.”  They exist every city in Canada.  Their plight has not been brought to public attention.
They are children who have fallen through the cracks.

There are 22,000 children waiting for adoption in Canada. 
Every year the number of adoptions decline.  There are only
1700 adoptions a year – these are approximate numbers as they are gathered in a willy nilly fashion from the different
areas in separate provinces. 

This data is 4 years old!

The Federal government must become involved in the welfare of our children.

I suggested this in a letter to Prime Minister Steven Harper; his office replied saying “Adoption in Canada is a matter of provincial jurisdiction”.

Not only that, Mr. Harper recently chaired a proposal to make overseas adoptions easier while regulations for adoptions of Canadian Children lie stagnant and fraught with red tape -
and our children languish in abandonment.

In my view if you can't understand and fix what's in your own back yard, don't go to the neighbours and try to fix theirs.

The fact that there are 5 – 7 million hits on each Canadian Adoption website describes the huge interest in adoption in Canada;  

Then why aren’t there more adoptions?

Every day people come to tell me their story - how they
really tried to adopt a Canadian orphan, but the process was
too filled with red tape:  "it was discouraging",
"It was slow and arduous", and "It was insulting".  
They all say the same thing - "we went elsewhere" or
"we gave up altogether"; "maybe we'll get pregnant".

We have statistics on all the orphaned children in foreign countries but we do not have Statistics on Canadian orphaned children. If you can't measure it - you can't manage it.

The Canadian system favours support of foster care rather than adoption – there is no support for adoptive parents.

It costs money to look after an abandoned child
(psychologically and medically); why not give to adoptive parents $1000 per month rather than $40,000 to foster one
child.

There are many potential loving adoptive parents in Canada and there are many Canadian orphaned children waiting to be adopted.

The Canadian adoption process needs to be made easier
throughout Canada. Let’s get working to unite them in loving
and happy homes.