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Some Nova Scotian adoptees are applauding the province’s move to open adoption records.

Nova Scotia is introducing new privacy tools for adoption records, giving people the option of protecting their information before adoption records are opened.

The Nova Scotia government is moving to unseal adoption records. The Liberal government has introduced legislation that will allow adopted children and birth parents to access adoption information if they choose to do so. The change will apply to all adoption records will take full effect in April of next year. Minister of Community Services Kelly Regan says the government worked to create a balance in modernizing the legislation. “Adoption records are a sensitive and deeply personal matter,�...

Nova Scotia is currently the only province in the country that doesn’t have open adoption records, but that will change next year.

Nova Scotia has taken its first step to open up adoption records, something that every other province in Canada has already done.